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Einstein, Villa and Zapata, invited by FICM

Araceli Calva translated by Cindy Hawes

Alberto Nulman, director of Los 5 secretos del oficinista, was present at the screening, and afterwards told the audience that he made the film to show all the stages of the German physicist’s life.
 
He said that he and his team did exhaustive research and received scientific support, including the co-authorship of the screenplay by Alberto Guijosa, researcher at the Nuclear Science Institute at the UNAM, and Alejandro Corichi, of the Mathmatics Institute of the UNAM, Morelia campus.

During 50 minutes, Los 5 secretos del oficinista tells the story of an employee from the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland, who sent five brief articles to a German science magazine. The articles are considered today as a kind of “birth certificate” of the modern conceptions of the universe. The clerk’s name was Alberto Einstein.

For his part, Esteban Azuela, director of Xochimilco 1914, said that this animated documentary, co-directed with Mara Soler, Carlos Gamboa and Luis Nuñez, and produced by Rubén Imaz, is based on the original stenograph record of the meeting between Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata on Dec. 14, 1914.  He pointed out that they had to edit the conversation for the film.

The documentary follows the meeting of these two important figures of Mexican history during their first encounter.  The original recording of meeting which occured before they took Mexico City is conserved. This short illustrates the conversation between these two individuals and their historic repercussion.

Los 5 secretos del oficinista, work by Alberto Nulman and Ana Luisa Montes de Oca, won an award in the science category at the 4th Convocatoria de Apoyo a Productores Independientes and was nominated for a Rockie Award at the Banff World Television Awards for best television production in the category of Documentary of Popular Science and Technology. It also competed in the Bienal Internacional de Cine Científico Unicaja Ronda 2010 and for the Best Television Documentary at DOCSDF 2010.

Xochimilco 1914 won the animated short award which was dedicated this year to the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence and the Centenary of the Mexican Revolution, and Expresión en Corto 2010.

In his presenation, Pablo Maya, director of Imagen Corporativo of Channel 22, pointed out that this is the third time the cultural television channel has participated in the Festival with the documentaries that were selected in this edition.

In the same way, he said that the program of Support to Producers aims to foment, stimulate and promote audiovisual production in Mexico as well as strengthen and stimulate the industry for the artistic and cultural future of this country.