Image Aguilar; Leopoldo Director, producer and screenwriter, he studied a Masters in Films Studies, with a specialization in Screenwriting at the Guadalajara University (U. de G.), Jalisco, Mexico, and another Masters in Film Direction at the Catalan School of Cinema and Audiovisuals, ESCAC in Barcelona, Spain. He has worked in various animated fiction projects and he has received diverse scholarships, from the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), from the State Fund for Culture and Arts (FECA) and from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) and the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). He has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), with his medium-length animated film De cómo los niños pueden volar / The Boy Who Flew (2008) at the 6th FICM; and with the medium-length animated film directed by Víctor René Ramírez Madrigal and Arturo Tornero Aceves, Monarca (2011), where he worked as co-screenwriter. He was production manager and co-director of the project Suertes, humores y pequeñas historias de la Revolución y la Independencia (2010), produced by the National Chamber of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology (CANIETI) and IMCINE. His feature length animated film, co-directed with Rodolfo Guzmán, El secreto del medallón de Jade (2012), won two awards granted by the Child Audience: at the 27th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) and at the 27th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina. He was selected to participate at the 6th Guadalajara Talents program at the 19th FICG, co-organized by the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale. He is currently working as the director and screenwriter of El columpio en el cerezo, winner of the Cutout Fest-Ánima Estudios award. He is also directing and producing the short film The Weeping, winner of FONCA’s co-investment program, and he is the director of the animation studio Ánima Estudios. Other Movies Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. See More Related News EL CAMINO DE LA VIDA: THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED by Matilde Landeta 03 · 27 · 25 Juan Rulfo and the silver screen 03 · 20 · 25 ESTRATEGIA MATRIMONIO: the sixties and seventies 03 · 13 · 25 Sergio Leone: DUCK, YOU SUCKER! and Mexican Censorship 03 · 06 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Aguilar; Leopoldo Director, producer and screenwriter, he studied a Masters in Films Studies, with a specialization in Screenwriting at the Guadalajara University (U. de G.), Jalisco, Mexico, and another Masters in Film Direction at the Catalan School of Cinema and Audiovisuals, ESCAC in Barcelona, Spain. He has worked in various animated fiction projects and he has received diverse scholarships, from the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), from the State Fund for Culture and Arts (FECA) and from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) and the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). He has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), with his medium-length animated film De cómo los niños pueden volar / The Boy Who Flew (2008) at the 6th FICM; and with the medium-length animated film directed by Víctor René Ramírez Madrigal and Arturo Tornero Aceves, Monarca (2011), where he worked as co-screenwriter. He was production manager and co-director of the project Suertes, humores y pequeñas historias de la Revolución y la Independencia (2010), produced by the National Chamber of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology (CANIETI) and IMCINE. His feature length animated film, co-directed with Rodolfo Guzmán, El secreto del medallón de Jade (2012), won two awards granted by the Child Audience: at the 27th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) and at the 27th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina. He was selected to participate at the 6th Guadalajara Talents program at the 19th FICG, co-organized by the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale. He is currently working as the director and screenwriter of El columpio en el cerezo, winner of the Cutout Fest-Ánima Estudios award. He is also directing and producing the short film The Weeping, winner of FONCA’s co-investment program, and he is the director of the animation studio Ánima Estudios.
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More
Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. See More
EL CAMINO DE LA VIDA: THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED by Matilde Landeta 03 · 27 · 25 Juan Rulfo and the silver screen 03 · 20 · 25 ESTRATEGIA MATRIMONIO: the sixties and seventies 03 · 13 · 25 Sergio Leone: DUCK, YOU SUCKER! and Mexican Censorship 03 · 06 · 25
