Nicolás Echevarría (Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, 1947) is a producer, director, and cinematographer, internationally renowned for his feature film Cabeza de vaca (1991), one of the most important Mexican films of the 1990s. Cabeza de vaca was entered into the Berlin International Film Festival (1991) and included in New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1991). Echo of the Mountain won the Gold Hugo for Best Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival (2014) and was included in NATIVe: A Journey into Indigenous Cinema, a special series at the Berlin International Film Festival (2015).Echevarría has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as from Mexico’s National System of Artists.In 2017, he received the National Arts and Literature Award in the Fine Arts category, the highest public honor awarded by the Mexican government in this field.His documentaries include Judea, Semana Santa entre los coras (1974); Híkuri Tame, peregrinación del peyote entre los huicholes (1977); María Sabina, mujer espíritu (1979), a portrait of the Mazatec priestess, famous for her knowledge of the ritual use of hallucinogenic mushrooms; Teshuinada, Semana Santa tarahumara (1979); Poetas campesinos (1980), about a traveling circus and its star performer, a rural poet and clown; Child Fidencio, the Healer of Espinazo (1981), a portrait of the shaman who devoted himself to healing the sick, thousands of whom traveled to see him in search of relief; and Echo of the Mountain (2014), about the life and work of Santos de la Torre, a Huichol artist.For TV, he made Sor Juana, Or, the Traps of Faith (1988), in collaboration with Octavio Paz; La guerra de los cristeros (1997), in collaboration with Jean Meyer, about the armed conflict between the federal government and the Catholic Church from 1926 to 1929; Maximiliano y Carlota (2004), in collaboration with Fernando del Paso, about the Second Mexican Empire; Memorial del 68 (2008), in collaboration with Sergio Raúl Arroyo, about the 1968 student movement in Mexico, its activists, and the movement’s political and cultural impact on national history; and La Conquista (2011), in collaboration with Enrique Krauze, about the Conquest of Mexico and its protagonists.
Nicolás Echevarría (Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, 1947) is a producer, director, and cinematographer, internationally renowned for his feature film Cabeza de vaca (1991), one of the most important Mexican films of the 1990s. Cabeza de vaca was entered into the Berlin International Film Festival (1991) and included in New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1991). Echo of the Mountain won the Gold Hugo for Best Documentary at the Chicago International Film Festival (2014) and was included in NATIVe: A Journey into Indigenous Cinema, a special series at the Berlin International Film Festival (2015).Echevarría has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as from Mexico’s National System of Artists.In 2017, he received the National Arts and Literature Award in the Fine Arts category, the highest public honor awarded by the Mexican government in this field.His documentaries include Judea, Semana Santa entre los coras (1974); Híkuri Tame, peregrinación del peyote entre los huicholes (1977); María Sabina, mujer espíritu (1979), a portrait of the Mazatec priestess, famous for her knowledge of the ritual use of hallucinogenic mushrooms; Teshuinada, Semana Santa tarahumara (1979); Poetas campesinos (1980), about a traveling circus and its star performer, a rural poet and clown; Child Fidencio, the Healer of Espinazo (1981), a portrait of the shaman who devoted himself to healing the sick, thousands of whom traveled to see him in search of relief; and Echo of the Mountain (2014), about the life and work of Santos de la Torre, a Huichol artist.For TV, he made Sor Juana, Or, the Traps of Faith (1988), in collaboration with Octavio Paz; La guerra de los cristeros (1997), in collaboration with Jean Meyer, about the armed conflict between the federal government and the Catholic Church from 1926 to 1929; Maximiliano y Carlota (2004), in collaboration with Fernando del Paso, about the Second Mexican Empire; Memorial del 68 (2008), in collaboration with Sergio Raúl Arroyo, about the 1968 student movement in Mexico, its activists, and the movement’s political and cultural impact on national history; and La Conquista (2011), in collaboration with Enrique Krauze, about the Conquest of Mexico and its protagonists.
