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Arce, Adrián

He studied social communication at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM, in Spanish), Mexico, and received a master’s degree in media production with a specialty in film production from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He received a Funding for Artists grant from BBVA Bancomer, Mexico, in 2003. He participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). In the 3rd FICM, he participated with his feature-length documentary, Voces de la guerrero (2004), co-directed with Antonio Zirión and Diego Rivera Kohn, which was presented in more than 10 festivals around the world and won, among other prizes, the SIGNIS Award for Best Documentary, a Special Mention and the Sergei Eisenstein Award at the 3rd Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” in Mexico City, and the 2004 José Rovirosa Award of the UNAM Film Archives. He participated in the 6th Festival of Latin American Documentary and Photography in Spain, and the 6th Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” with his feature length documentary Memoria en brasas (2006), among other film showings and festivals. His short fiction film El Ñero’s trip (2007) participated in the 2nd Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM), among other festivals, and won an Honorable Mention at the 1st Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF). He participated, among others, in the 11th FICM and in the 5th BORDOCS Documentary Forum, Tijuana, with his short documentary film Fuera de foco (2013), which won the Jury Award at the 4th Concordia International Social Film Festival (FICSC, in Spanish), Argentina, and the Best Documentary award at the Recife Ethnographic Film Festival (FFER, in Portuguese), Brazil.

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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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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