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Eugenio Polgovsky (Mexico City, 1977). In 1994, he won the UNESCO-sponsored photography contest Living Together. He studied film directing and cinematography at the CCC film school. His thesis project and first documentary, Tropic of Cancer, won numerous awards around the world (Best Documentary at the Morelia International Film Festival 2004; Ariel for Best First Feature; Joris Ivens Prize at the Festival Cinéma du Réel; Best Documentary at DocuDays in Beirut, Corea and FICCO, and Golden Prize at the Al Jazeera Festival in Qatar). Tropic of Cancer also had a screening during the Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2005, and was included in the Frontier section at Sundance. It has been screened in over 100 festivals around the world. In 2004, Polgovsky received the National Youth Award in Mexico. He has worked as a cinematographer in a number of documentary, narrative feature, and visual arts projects, collaborating with artist Jae Eu Choi and renowned butoh dancer Yuzhio Amagatzu in Japan, among others. In 2008, with this production company Tecolote Films and the support of the Hubert Bals Boundation and Vision Sud Est in Switzerland, he directed, photographed and edited Los herederos (The Inheritors), a documentary about the children who work in the Mexican countryside. He spent three years working on the project, which premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival. Los herederos was the first documentary invited to participate in the competition section Generation Kplus at the Berlin Film Festival. It has garnered a number of awards, among these, two Ariel Awards (Best Documentary and Best Editing), the Coral at the 30th Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Best Documentary at FIDOCS, Chile, the Zapata Award at the Festival of Memory, and two awards from Amnesty International (Slovenia and Lisbon). In 2009, the documentary received the support of UNICEF for its distribution in Mexico and the world as part of an effort to raise awareness about child labor in the countryside. Polgovsky is currently working on a documentary about children suffering from parasitic infections in Africa, which will be part of a campaign to combat this widespread health problem.