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Natalia Bruschtein was born in Argentina and has lived in Mexico since 1976. She did film studies at the Film Training Centre (CCC) in Mexico and graduated as film director with her documentary Finding Víctor, which was nominated by the Mexican Film Academy for Best Documentary Short. She has worked in different areas of film. As sound designer she won the Ariel Award for Best Sound for documentary In the Pit, directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo. However, her work focuses mainly on film editing. She has edited several documentaries and fiction films that have been awarded, including Cobrador: In God We Trust by director Paul Leduc, for which she won the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema's Coral Award. Documentary Rosario by Shula Erenberg has also received numerous awards. She directed her first feature film, Time Suspended, in 2015, which is participating in numerous festivals and has won several awards. It won three awards at the Guadalajara International Film Festival: the Iberoamerican Documentary Jury's Special Award, the FIPRESCI Award and the Special Mention Mezcal Award. At the Festival de la Memoria Documental Iberoamericano she received the Audience Award. At the Guanajuato International Film Festival she obtained the Mexican Documentary Special Mention. At the Budapest International Documentary Festival she won the Let's Face Aging Main Award for Best Documentary. At the Chicago International Film Festival won the Golden Plaque Documentary Competition and the Special Mention Tato Miller Award at the International Film Festival of Mar de Plata, Argentina (SICA-AMPA). Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, Cuba, Feisal Award. She was nominated for Best Documentary at the Biarritz Festival Latin America where she earned the artistic residence to take place in Lizières, France in 2016 with the project En la piel del otro, which is under development. She won Best Feature Documentary at the Sehsüchte - International Student's Film Festival and she was nominated for best documentary at the Ariel Award 2016 for best documentary with the film Time Suspended.- Editor
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Natalia Bruschtein was born in Argentina and has lived in Mexico since 1976. She did film studies at the Film Training Centre (CCC) in Mexico and graduated as film director with her documentary Finding Víctor, which was nominated by the Mexican Film Academy for Best Documentary Short. She has worked in different areas of film. As sound designer she won the Ariel Award for Best Sound for documentary In the Pit, directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo. However, her work focuses mainly on film editing. She has edited several documentaries and fiction films that have been awarded, including Cobrador: In God We Trust by director Paul Leduc, for which she won the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema's Coral Award. Documentary Rosario by Shula Erenberg has also received numerous awards. She directed her first feature film, Time Suspended, in 2015, which is participating in numerous festivals and has won several awards. It won three awards at the Guadalajara International Film Festival: the Iberoamerican Documentary Jury's Special Award, the FIPRESCI Award and the Special Mention Mezcal Award. At the Festival de la Memoria Documental Iberoamericano she received the Audience Award. At the Guanajuato International Film Festival she obtained the Mexican Documentary Special Mention. At the Budapest International Documentary Festival she won the Let's Face Aging Main Award for Best Documentary. At the Chicago International Film Festival won the Golden Plaque Documentary Competition and the Special Mention Tato Miller Award at the International Film Festival of Mar de Plata, Argentina (SICA-AMPA). Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, Cuba, Feisal Award. She was nominated for Best Documentary at the Biarritz Festival Latin America where she earned the artistic residence to take place in Lizières, France in 2016 with the project En la piel del otro, which is under development. She won Best Feature Documentary at the Sehsüchte - International Student's Film Festival and she was nominated for best documentary at the Ariel Award 2016 for best documentary with the film Time Suspended.- Director
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YULENE OLAIZOLA. (Mexico City, 1983) Her first film, the documentary "Shakespeare & Victor Hugo's Intimacies" received more than 30 awards, including San Sebastian, BAFICI, IDFA & La Habana, it was also awarded with the Ariel for best Mexican first film. Her second film "Artificial Paradises" was supported by the Tribeca Film Institute and the Hubert Bals Fund, it was premiered at Rotterdam IFFR in 2010. "Fogo" her third film, was presented at the Director's Fortnight in Cannes in 2012. In 2015, she premiered "Epitaph" a co-direction with Ruben Imaz. Her fifth film "Tragic Jungle " premiered at Venice 2020.- Director
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Dana Rotberg was born on 11 August 1960 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. Dana is a director and writer, known for Ángel de fuego (1992), Elvira Luz Cruz, pena máxima (1985) and White Lies (2013).- Editor
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Ana Laura Calderón is a Mexican/Spanish film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Member of AMEE (Mexican Editor's Guild) and Honorary member of ANAC (Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici). She is the director and producer of the award-winning "MEZQUITE'S HEART", now on HBO, the editor of "AMARAICA", also on HBO max, and the producer of "CHILANGOLANDIA", film nominated in 2021 for seven CANACINE annual awards (National Chamber of the Film Industry).
Ana Laura graduated from the prestigious EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV) in Cuba and has a Bachelor's Degree in Cinematography at CCC (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica) in Mexico.
Ana Laura's first foray into feature directing and producing was with the documentary "THE ISLAND OF YOUTH" (2007), which won best documentary at the Riviera Maya Film Festival, Special Mention at Zanate Documentary Film Festival (Mexico), 3 awards at International Documentary Film Festival Santiago Álvarez (Cuba), nominated to the Silver Godess for Best Documentary (PECIME- Mexico) and was an official selection at the Morelia International Film Festival, DocsBarcelona, the Memory Film Festival - Iberoamerican Documentaries (Mexico), DOCSDF (Mexico), the Trieste Film Festival (Italy) and Toulouse (France).
The first narrative feature that Ana Laura directed was "DRAWING THE SKY," released in 2018 by VIDEOCINE (Mexico) & PANTELION (USA). It tells the story of Sofia, who is an expert in celestial mechanics--tracking the routes of satellites in space--yet has no idea what her path is on earth. After a storm ruins her hopes of completing her work, she unexpectedly meets Raul, a volcanologist, who teaches her to read the signs and not to doubt herself when the universe is aligned.
"MEZQUITE'S HEART" (Mexico 2020), Ana Laura's second narrative feature, tells the story of Lucía, a Yoreme (indigenous) girl in Northern Mexico, who dreams of healing her father's broken heart by playing the harp, which is traditionally played only by men in her community.
MEZQUITE premiered at the 43rd Sao Paulo Film Festival in October 2019. Thus far, it has also been an official selection of the following festivals around the world, among others, where it has won many awards: the Cinequest Film & VR Festival (California); the San Diego Latino Film Festival (SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD: EXCELLENCE IN REPRESENTATION); WorldFest Houston (REMI AWARD GOLD FEATURES - Coming of Age); IV Festival Internacional de Cine de Derechos Humanos - BannabáFest, Panamá (PREMIO A LA MEJOR FICCIÓN); the WoFF: World of Film International Festival Glasgow (BEST FEMALE PERSPECTIVE, FEATURE COMPETITION); IFF Schlingel (CLUB OF FESTIVAL AWARDS, CATEGORY: CHILDREN'S FILM); and 2020 Women's Film Festival San Diego (AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE), FIFEM Festival International du Film pour Enfants de Montreal Canada. (MONTREAL GRAND PRIX), 38 BUFF International Film Festival Malmö, Sweden (THE CITY OF MALMÖ CHILDREN'S FILM AWARD), BJX Bajío International Film Festival Guanajuato, México (PRESS AWARD), 24 Olympia International Film Festival, Greece (BEST FEATURE DIRECTOR) and 19th International Debut Film Festival "Spirit of Fire", Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (SPECIAL MENTION FROM THE JURY).
Mezquite will be shown on HBO Max for a two-year period starting in July 2021.
Ana Laura has directed and produced three short films: "TO DIE" (2009), "ALWAYS ON MY MIND" (2013), "EMOTIONS" (2014) and recently "TERRANOVA" (2017).
Highlights of Ana Laura's work as an editor include Aarón Fernández's films "USED PARTS," (Mexico/France/Spain 2007), which won awards at film festivals in Guadalajara, Montreal and Havana, and "THE EMPTY HOURS" (Mexico 2013), which had its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival (Spain) and won awards at the Morelia International Film Festival (Mexico) and at the Tokyo Film Festival (BEST ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION).
Ana Laura also edited Fabrizio Prada's "WRITTEN WITH BLOOD" (Mexico 2010), an award-winner at the Yellow Fever Film Festival (Ireland), and Fez Noriega's "INTRODUCING LAURA" (2010). She also edited and co-produced Christopher Hool's "CAMBIO DE RUTA" (Mexico 2014) and Miguel Garzon's documentary feature "TAYOS" (Ecuador/Spain/Mexico 2017). She worked as an editor in the series "RUN COYOTE RUN". Recently, she edited two chapters of the series "100 YEARS WITH JUAN RULFO" by Juan Carlos Rulfo, two chapters of Paramount's action series "R" and the features "NAHUI," directed by Gerardo Tort, and "AMARAICA," an American production by the director Tim Sparks.- Cinematographer
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Pilar Perdomo Munévar is known for El árbol de Matías (2021), Atmósferas (2019) and Andaderas del tiempo (2017).- Ana Paula Pintado is known for Mezquite's Heart (2019).
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Yolanda Cruz is known for Reencuentros: 2501 migrantes (2009), Hope, Soledad (2021) and El Reloj (2013).- Director
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Tatiana Huezo was born on 9 January 1972 in San Salvador, El Salvador. She is a director and cinematographer, known for The Echo (2023), Prayers for the Stolen (2021) and El lugar más pequeño (2011).- Actress
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Ángeles Cruz was born on 22 September 1970 in Villa de Guadalupe Victoria, Oaxaca, Mexico. She is an actress and director, known for Nudo Mixteco (2021), Valentina or the Serenity (2023) and Get the Gringo (2012).- Director
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Michelle Garza Cervera is Mexico City-based director and screenwriter who graduated from The Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. She was awarded a Chevening scholarship to study in the United Kingdom, where she completed an M.F.A in Film Directing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her short films have been selected in over a hundred international film festivals. Her debut feature, Huesera, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2022, where it won the Best New Narrative Director and the Nora Ephron awards, and has continued to collect over 30 accolades from international film festivals around the world, including the Sitges Film Festival's Citizen Kane Award for Best New Director and the Blood Window Award for the Best Ibero-American film.- Director
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Hiromi Kamata was born on 12 February 1982 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is a director and assistant director, known for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023), Let the Right One In (2022) and Shōgun (2024).- Writer
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Alejandra Márquez Abella was born on 30 April 1982 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. She is a writer and director, known for Northern Skies Over Empty Space (2022), The Good Girls (2018) and Semana Santa (2015).- Script and Continuity Department
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Matilde Landeta was one of the first woman filmmakers in México, along with Adela Sequeyro. Both wrote the movies they directed, and both could only make a few in a film industry strongly controlled by their male counterparts.
At first Matilde's family opposed to her aspirations, but her brother Eduardo Landeta, an actor in early sound movies, introduced her to director Fernando de Fuentes, who gave her the opportunity to be the script supervisor of his «Revolution Trilogy» (comprised of «El prisionero 13», «El compadre Mendoza» and «¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!») In this capacity and later as assistant director, she worked in 75 movies, including two classics of the «golden age» of Mexican cinema, Emilio Fernández's «Flor silvestre« and Julio Bracho's «Distinto amanecer«; the comedy «El cocinero de mi mujer» by Cuban director Ramón Peón, and the horror drama «La herencia de la Llorona», one of the few films directed by Mauricio Magdaleno, Fernández's frequent screenwriter.
As she had no support to become a director, Landeta founded her own production company called Tacma and made her screen adaptation «Lola Casanova», a historical drama based on a novel by Francisco Rojas González. But she had "disobeyed" the industry rules, so she was boycotted and the release was delayed for a year. Although people's reaction was good, the film was removed from the cinema in five days. But she went on and adapted another novel by González Rojas, «La negra Angustias», that many consider her best film. A story of the Mexican revolution, it starred María Elena Marqués as Angustias, the young daughter of a generous bandit, who is rejected for living with a witch and for refusing men's harassment. When she kills a charro who tried to rape her, Angustias runs away, joins Zapata's troops, becomes a colonel and, following her father's steps, fights for justice for women and peasants.
Landeta completed her trilogy of female melodramas in 1951 with «Trotacalles», starring the tragic Czech star Miroslava. She was offered a job supervising the content of foreign films being shot in México, and doing shorts for American television. In those years she and brother Eduardo wrote the script for «Juvenile Court», a drama about street boys, which she sold to the National Film Bank of México, under the agreement that she would direct it. But the accord was broken by the industry: the project was given to Alfonso Corona Blake as his first directorial assignment, the title was changed to «El camino de la vida», and they tried to erase the Landeta brothers' names from the writing credits. Matilde sued and won the case, but she was not allowed to work in the film industry in México.
The director continued working in shorts for many years, but in 1975 film critic Jorge Ayala Blanco rediscovered «La negra Angustias» during the preparations of a retrospective of films directed by women to celebrate the International Women's Year. Ayala Blanco wrote the magazine article "Matilde Landeta, nosotros te amamos" (Matilde Landeta, we love you), which led to a revival of the filmmaker's oeuvre. After decades of being ousted of Mexican cinema, she was first the subject of Marcela Fernández Violante's documentary «Matilde Landeta, pionera del cine nacional»; and then she directed her last two films: the documentary »El rescate de las islas Revillagigedo», produced and co-written by actress Elda Peralta, whom she had directed in «La negra Angustias» and «Trotacalles»; and the romantic drama «Nocturno a Rosario», starring Ofelia Medina.
Matilde Landeta won the Ariel, the Mexican top film prize, for Best Screen Story for El camino de la vida, and received the Lifetime Achievement Ariel in 1992. In 2005 the Asociación Cultural Matilde Landeta was created, and with Fernández Violante as its president, the association gives an annual award to the best screenplay written by a woman.- Actor
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Lila Avilés was born on 11 April 1982 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. Lila is an actor and director, known for The Chambermaid (2018).- Cinematographer
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Michelle Ibaven is known for Cuando cierro los ojos (2019), No hay lugar lejano (2012) and Divergente (2023).- Producer
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May 1, 1986. Originally from Guelatao, Oaxaca, she is a producer, director, cinematographer, exhibitor and cultural manager. Graduated from the University of Guadalajara, she develops projects focused on provincial regions. Since 2011 she has led her native Guelatao at the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca towards becoming an important national reference for audiovisual training and exhibition from a community and social perspective. The blue years (2017) was her first feature as a producer. Uncle Yim, a feature documentary, is her debut as director.