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Andrade Juárez, Gastón

He studied screenwriting and realization in the University Center of Cinematographic Studies of UNAM.

He was responsible for the photography of the short film Rio Lerma, winner of the Ariel award for best short film in 2011. With his short fiction film, The Murmurs, he won the Ingmar Bergman Award for Best New Director at the 32nd Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden.

His documentary, El árbol, participated, among others, in the prestigious Dutch documentary festival IDFA, the Short Film Corner of the 67th Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Documentary Dance Award at the 41st Huesca International Film Festival, in Spain, and Best Mexican Documentary at the 16th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), in Mexico.

In 2014, he obtained the FONCA Youth Creative Award. In 2016, he received the support to Cinematographic Creators by the IMCINE. In 2017, he was the winner of the Estimulo Gabriel García Márquez with his project La Educación que Silencia.

He founded his production company La Oscuridad de la Nube, where he independently realized the documentary short film Los árboles no dejan ver el bosque.

Other Movies

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
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

Vidas en la orilla
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

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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

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