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Flavio González Mello (Mexico City, Mexico, 1967). Mello has worked in film, television, theater, and narrative. He studied at the CCC and the CUEC film schools. His film, Domingo siete, which he wrote and directed, obtained the 1997 Ariel for Best Medium-Length Fiction Film from the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has also written and directed the short films: En vivo (2002), El número 23 (2002), Medalla al empeño (2004), and 40 grados a la sombra (Danzante Award Huesca Film Festival, Spain, 2009). He wrote the original screenplay for Pachito Rex, produced by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) and the CCC Film School (Mexico, 2001). He has also written and directed a number of television programs, among them the documentary miniseries El Siglo de Oro de la Melancolía (TV-UNAM, 2004), hosted by Roger Bartra, which won the Crystal Award in 2004 for Best Documentary Screenplay, and authored a number of plays, including: 1822, el año que fuimos Imperio (2000), Lascurain o la brevedad del poder (2005), Olimpia 68 (2008), and Edipo en Colofón (2009).