Image Ahumada; Israel He has a degree in Communication Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He graduated with a specialty in Direction from the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC). During his academic stage he directed the short films Perdona nuestras ofensas (2013), nominated for a Diosa de Plata as Best Short Fiction Film; Fausto en la oscuridad (2017), for which he won the Best Director award at the Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival; and Dejar la piel (2017), Doculatente Award for Best WIP, awarded at the 6th DOCULAB - Guadalajara International Film Festival; this award consisted of attending the IDF Academy during the 27th Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA). Professionally, he has worked as a producer of more than a dozen short films, as well as the documentary feature, M (2018), by Eva Villaseñor, which won the Best Mexican Documentary Award at the 21st edition of the Guanajuato International Film Festival and the Ambulante Award for Documentary at the 16th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He is currently a teacher at several universities, while he develops his debut film, La mano, que aplastarnos quiere. Other Movies Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More 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 Related News The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Ahumada; Israel He has a degree in Communication Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He graduated with a specialty in Direction from the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC). During his academic stage he directed the short films Perdona nuestras ofensas (2013), nominated for a Diosa de Plata as Best Short Fiction Film; Fausto en la oscuridad (2017), for which he won the Best Director award at the Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival; and Dejar la piel (2017), Doculatente Award for Best WIP, awarded at the 6th DOCULAB - Guadalajara International Film Festival; this award consisted of attending the IDF Academy during the 27th Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA). Professionally, he has worked as a producer of more than a dozen short films, as well as the documentary feature, M (2018), by Eva Villaseñor, which won the Best Mexican Documentary Award at the 21st edition of the Guanajuato International Film Festival and the Ambulante Award for Documentary at the 16th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He is currently a teacher at several universities, while he develops his debut film, La mano, que aplastarnos quiere.
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
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
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
