Image Ávila Dueñas, Iván He studied the science and techniques of communication at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA), Guadalajara, and a course on screenwriting at the Center for Film Research and Teaching at the University of Guadalajara (U. of G.). He is the author of the book El cine mexicano de Luis Buñuel. Estudio de los argumentos y personajes (1994). He received a Film, Video and Multimedia Grant from the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations in 1997. He is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico. His work has participated in more than 20 film showings and festivals around the world. His first feature Adán y Eva (todavía) (2004) won a Jury Special Award at the 8th Method Fest Independent Film Festival, California, and was nominated for seven Ariel awards at the 52nd Ariel Awards Ceremony, Mexico, and won the Best Costume award. He received an award at the 1st Cancún Riviera Maya International Film Festival, Mexico; the Young European Jury award at the 16thBiarritz Festival of Latin American Cinema and Cultures, France; and a Special Mention of the Jury at the 3rd Tremblant Film Festival, Canada, for his second feature film La sangre iluminada (2007). His feature-length documentary Zacateco (Labor Vincit Omnia) (2010) premiered at the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He participated in the 4th UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM), Mexico, among other festivals, with his feature-length documentary La mañana no comienza aquí (2014). 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 14th FICM Official Selection: El peluquero romántico 10 · 27 · 16 Realizadores FICM 2016: Iván Ávila Dueñas 09 · 27 · 16 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Ávila Dueñas, Iván He studied the science and techniques of communication at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA), Guadalajara, and a course on screenwriting at the Center for Film Research and Teaching at the University of Guadalajara (U. of G.). He is the author of the book El cine mexicano de Luis Buñuel. Estudio de los argumentos y personajes (1994). He received a Film, Video and Multimedia Grant from the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations in 1997. He is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico. His work has participated in more than 20 film showings and festivals around the world. His first feature Adán y Eva (todavía) (2004) won a Jury Special Award at the 8th Method Fest Independent Film Festival, California, and was nominated for seven Ariel awards at the 52nd Ariel Awards Ceremony, Mexico, and won the Best Costume award. He received an award at the 1st Cancún Riviera Maya International Film Festival, Mexico; the Young European Jury award at the 16thBiarritz Festival of Latin American Cinema and Cultures, France; and a Special Mention of the Jury at the 3rd Tremblant Film Festival, Canada, for his second feature film La sangre iluminada (2007). His feature-length documentary Zacateco (Labor Vincit Omnia) (2010) premiered at the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He participated in the 4th UNAM International Film Festival (FICUNAM), Mexico, among other festivals, with his feature-length documentary La mañana no comienza aquí (2014).
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
14th FICM Official Selection: El peluquero romántico 10 · 27 · 16 Realizadores FICM 2016: Iván Ávila Dueñas 09 · 27 · 16
