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Born in Mexico City in 1965, Carlos Taibo Mahojo is a film enthusiast and a “logistic-motivator-facilitator” for the new generations of producers. He is both an active teacher and producer. He was responsible for creating the production curriculum at the CCC film school, where he taught for more than six years. He is currently in charge of developing a special field of study in this area, and is working with Martha Orozco in adapting a textbook called Manual básico de producción and another on more advanced themes in executive production, Y, ¿después de la carpeta qué? Both projects are co-sponsored by IMCINE and CCC. He was recently invited to teach a first year production class at the CUEC-UNAM film school. Taibo Mahojo has also given more than 15 workshops on project pitching, financing and budgeting from 2005 to the present. In 2008 he traveled with the AMBULANTE documentary film festival to four different cities in Mexico teaching workshops on how to pitch and produce documentary projects. He was executive producer of De noche vienes, Esmeralda and Recuerdos, a documentary filmed in six countries. He also produced the short film Aquí iba el himno and the feature film Club Eutanasia, which premiered in 2005. He was production director of Dust to Dust (Por la libre), Hijos del Viento, Ambar, Who the Hell is Juliette? (¿Quién diablos es Juliette?,) The Arrival (Second Unit), High Crimes (Mexico Unit) and Bandidas, for Europacorp. Between February 2005 and June 2007, he worked at IMCINE (Mexican Institute for Cinematography) as director of the Production Support Division.