Programa de Asesorías a la Escritura de Guión FICM - IFAL

For the second year, The French Institute of Latin America (IFAL) and the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), with the invaluable support of the French Embassy in Mexico, joined forces to promote and strengthen training opportunities for young Mexican filmmakers.

The Mexico-France Screenwriting Advisory Program "Afinar el guion" was an opportunity to review and improve feature-length fiction screenplays in sessions guided by well-known French screenwriters.

1. La niña pájaro by Sofía Carrillo
2. Los Santitos by Mateo García
3. Sentido by Hugo Arrevillaga
4. Las cosas que nunca nos dijimos by Dariela Pérez and Diana Garay

Santiago Amigorena Santiago Amigorena has written and directed the films Algunos días en septiembre (2006), Otros silencios (2011) and Les Enfants Rouges (2014). He is also the regular screenwriter for French filmmaker Cédric Klapisch, with whom he collaborated in Le Péril jeune, Quizás, Ni a favor ni en contra, and more recently in El viñedo que nos une, Alguien en algún lugar and En movimiento. These films were introduced to us in Mexico through the French Film Tour. 

Santiago Amigorena is also a well-known writer. His novel El gueto interior, published by Random House in 2019 has been recognized and awarded multiple prizes. Le Premier Exil received the prestigious Prix Médicis in 2021.

As part of the activities to contribute to the training and professional updating of Mexican filmmakers, the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) launched the Screenwriting Advisory Program "Afinar el guion", in partnership with the French Embassy in Mexico.

Since its beginning, the FICM has maintained a significant bond with France. Whether through its association with the Cannes Critics' Week or through the numerous French guests present in Morelia each year, including Bertrand Tavernier, Bruno Dumont, Julie Bertucelli, Laurent Cantet, Michel Gondry, Olivier Assayas, and Nicolas Philibert, among many others.

1. Estudio para personaje hueco by Alejandro Iglesias Mendizábal
2. Rambler by Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero
3. Los amantes de este mundo by Faride Schroeder
4. Kenya by Alejandro Zuno

Philippe Claudel is the screenwriter of Yves Angelo's En la punta de los dedos and Almas grises, and also of Hace mucho que te quiero, Todos los soles, Antes del invierno and A Childhood, four screenplays for which he is also the director.Hace mucho que te quiero won Best Foreign Film at the 2009 BAFTAs. As a writer, Philippe Claudel won the Renaudot Award for Almas Grises, the France-Télévision Award for Abandono and the Goncourt des Lycéens for El informe de Brodeck.