Born in Mexico City in 1970. He studied film, with a concentration in directing, at the University Center for Film Studies. His student short No todo es permanente received an Ariel Award nomination for Best Documentary Short (1996). In 2004, he wrote and directed his debut feature, DuckSeason, selected for over 90 national and international festivals. This film went on to win numerous prizes, including 11 Ariel Awards (Best Film, Best Debut Feature, and Best Director, among others). Duck Season was distributed by Alfonso Cuarón and Warner Independent in the United States.In 2007, in collaboration with filmmaker Paula Markovitch, Eimbcke co-wrote his second feature, Lake Tahoe, which was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and received the Sundance/NHK Award. The film premiered in 2008 in the official selection of the 58th Berlinale, where it received the FIPRESCI and Alfred Bauer Prizes. In 2009, Eimbcke received the National University Recognition and Distinction for Young Academics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2010, he contributed to the film Revolución with the short La bienvenida.With Club Sandwich (2013), his third feature, he won Best Director at the 61st San Sebastián International Film Festival, among other honors. With the project The Diary of an Elephant (2015), he was invited to participate in the Berlinale Residency; he spent some time living in Berlin as he wrote and developed projects such as the short Sunday Morning for the feature film Berlin, I Love You (2017) and the screenplay of Becoming Dr. Q for the US production company Plan B. Since 2021, Eimbcke has lived and worked in Mexico City. There he wrote Olmo, a film project produced by Plan B and shot in Las Cruces, New Mexico; it is currently in the post-production phase. His fiction project Moscas is seeking funding via his production company Kinotitlán y Teorema.Fernando Eimbcke is a member of Mexico’s National System of Artists and regularly participates as a guest instructor at the Center for Film Studies, where he teaches and advises in the screenwriting department.
Born in Mexico City in 1970. He studied film, with a concentration in directing, at the University Center for Film Studies. His student short No todo es permanente received an Ariel Award nomination for Best Documentary Short (1996). In 2004, he wrote and directed his debut feature, DuckSeason, selected for over 90 national and international festivals. This film went on to win numerous prizes, including 11 Ariel Awards (Best Film, Best Debut Feature, and Best Director, among others). Duck Season was distributed by Alfonso Cuarón and Warner Independent in the United States.In 2007, in collaboration with filmmaker Paula Markovitch, Eimbcke co-wrote his second feature, Lake Tahoe, which was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and received the Sundance/NHK Award. The film premiered in 2008 in the official selection of the 58th Berlinale, where it received the FIPRESCI and Alfred Bauer Prizes. In 2009, Eimbcke received the National University Recognition and Distinction for Young Academics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2010, he contributed to the film Revolución with the short La bienvenida.With Club Sandwich (2013), his third feature, he won Best Director at the 61st San Sebastián International Film Festival, among other honors. With the project The Diary of an Elephant (2015), he was invited to participate in the Berlinale Residency; he spent some time living in Berlin as he wrote and developed projects such as the short Sunday Morning for the feature film Berlin, I Love You (2017) and the screenplay of Becoming Dr. Q for the US production company Plan B. Since 2021, Eimbcke has lived and worked in Mexico City. There he wrote Olmo, a film project produced by Plan B and shot in Las Cruces, New Mexico; it is currently in the post-production phase. His fiction project Moscas is seeking funding via his production company Kinotitlán y Teorema.Fernando Eimbcke is a member of Mexico’s National System of Artists and regularly participates as a guest instructor at the Center for Film Studies, where he teaches and advises in the screenwriting department.
