Salvador Carrasco has just signed a contract with the prestigious agency Casanovas & Lynch to turn Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s ‘The All Saints’ Day Lovers’ into a feature film.

In his bravura feature debut, Carrasco has created nothing less than a dazzling vision of the birth of a uniquely Mexican religion born of the searing fusion of Catholic and Aztec deities.

“The Other Conquest” (“La Otra Conquista”) preemed in L.A. in advance of its domestic openings this week with exec producer Placido Domingo, son-producer Alvaro Domingo, writer/director Salvador Carrasco and its star Elpidia Carrillo on hand at the Acad gala for the spectacular film.

Against all odds, "The Other Conquest" has turned out to be one of the most successful Mexican releases of the decade. Boffo business in opening weekend was 20% higher than that of Mel Gibson vehicle "Payback" and bigger than any other Mexican pic in history.

The mind-jarring clash of cultures--and the traumatic birth of a new nation--is the subject of Salvador Carrasco’s “The Other Conquest,” a historical drama that explores the religious and political roots of Mexico through the prism of the human soul.It all begins with an idea.