Image Almada, Natalia She received a master’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She obtained the MacArthur, Guggenheim, USA Artists and Alpert grants. Her work has been shown at more than 30 film screenings and festivals around the world and has participated in four editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). She received a Special Mention at the 3rd FICM for her feature-length documentary Al otro lado (2005), which also won the award for Best Documentary at the 1st Puerto Rico International Film Fest & Convention (PRIFFC) and the Cultural Voice Award at the 6th New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF), among others. She participated in the 7th FICM with her feature-length documentary El General (2009), which won the Best Director Award at the 25th Sundance Film Festival and the Third Coral Award at the 31st International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba. At the 9th FICM, she participated with her feature-length documentary El velador (2011), which was shown at the 43rd Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes, and won, among other prizes, the award for Best Documentary at the 13th International Film Festival Bratislava; the SICA Award and a Special Mention for the FEISAL Award at the 26th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina; and the award for Best Cinematography at the 14th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM in French), Canada. Her first feature film Everything Else (2005) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM. Other Movies If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More 40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More Related News Todo lo demás, de Natalia Almada, inaugurará Cinema Village 05 · 03 · 18 Winners 14º Morelia International Film Festival 11 · 29 · 16 Official Selection of the 14th FICM: Todo lo demás 10 · 23 · 16 Realizadores FICM 2016: Natalia Almada 10 · 03 · 16 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Almada, Natalia She received a master’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She obtained the MacArthur, Guggenheim, USA Artists and Alpert grants. Her work has been shown at more than 30 film screenings and festivals around the world and has participated in four editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). She received a Special Mention at the 3rd FICM for her feature-length documentary Al otro lado (2005), which also won the award for Best Documentary at the 1st Puerto Rico International Film Fest & Convention (PRIFFC) and the Cultural Voice Award at the 6th New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF), among others. She participated in the 7th FICM with her feature-length documentary El General (2009), which won the Best Director Award at the 25th Sundance Film Festival and the Third Coral Award at the 31st International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba. At the 9th FICM, she participated with her feature-length documentary El velador (2011), which was shown at the 43rd Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes, and won, among other prizes, the award for Best Documentary at the 13th International Film Festival Bratislava; the SICA Award and a Special Mention for the FEISAL Award at the 26th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina; and the award for Best Cinematography at the 14th Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM in French), Canada. Her first feature film Everything Else (2005) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM.
If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More
Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More
40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More
Todo lo demás, de Natalia Almada, inaugurará Cinema Village 05 · 03 · 18 Winners 14º Morelia International Film Festival 11 · 29 · 16 Official Selection of the 14th FICM: Todo lo demás 10 · 23 · 16 Realizadores FICM 2016: Natalia Almada 10 · 03 · 16
