Image Cassini, Gian He studied audiovisual languages at the Visual Arts Department of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL, in Spanish), Mexico, where he also taught short film production, documentary production and video production. In addition, he has taken various workshops on cinematography, including a course on film directing with Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, in 2005, and a documentary screenwriting workshop with Spanish director Ricardo Íscar, in 2012. His work has been shown at more than 10 film screenings and festivals around the world. He participated, among other festivals, in the 5th UNAM International Gay Film Festival in Mexico City, and the 14th MIX Mexico: Festival of Sexual Diversity in Film and Video, with his short fiction film Panoramas (2009); which received a Special Mention at the 5th Monterrey International Film Festival (FIC Monterrey). He competed in the Official Selection at the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his short fiction film A rapel (2011), which also participated in the 33rd International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba; the Vienna Queer Cinema International Film Festival, Identities 2013, Austria; and the 23rd Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), Australia, among others. He has also worked as a producer in several films, including: El pacto (2011) by Pablo Alejandro Gómez Canales and Ballad of the Living Dead (2014), a short film that won the Nuevo León Film Production grant (PROMOCINE) in 2011, and the 7th National Competition for Short Film Postproduction, launched by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE). He is currently working on the production of his first feature length documentary Comala, which won the IMCINE award to begin its development at the 7th International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF, in Spanish) 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 The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25 When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Cassini, Gian He studied audiovisual languages at the Visual Arts Department of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL, in Spanish), Mexico, where he also taught short film production, documentary production and video production. In addition, he has taken various workshops on cinematography, including a course on film directing with Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, in 2005, and a documentary screenwriting workshop with Spanish director Ricardo Íscar, in 2012. His work has been shown at more than 10 film screenings and festivals around the world. He participated, among other festivals, in the 5th UNAM International Gay Film Festival in Mexico City, and the 14th MIX Mexico: Festival of Sexual Diversity in Film and Video, with his short fiction film Panoramas (2009); which received a Special Mention at the 5th Monterrey International Film Festival (FIC Monterrey). He competed in the Official Selection at the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his short fiction film A rapel (2011), which also participated in the 33rd International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba; the Vienna Queer Cinema International Film Festival, Identities 2013, Austria; and the 23rd Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), Australia, among others. He has also worked as a producer in several films, including: El pacto (2011) by Pablo Alejandro Gómez Canales and Ballad of the Living Dead (2014), a short film that won the Nuevo León Film Production grant (PROMOCINE) in 2011, and the 7th National Competition for Short Film Postproduction, launched by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE). He is currently working on the production of his first feature length documentary Comala, which won the IMCINE award to begin its development at the 7th International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF, in Spanish)
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
The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25 When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25
When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25
