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Castañeda, Karla

She studied Painting and Illustration at the Faculty of Fine Arts Pontevedra, University of Vigo, Spain, and graduated with a degree in Communication Sciences from ITESO.

In 2007, she directed her opera prima, the short film Jacinta, which was pre-selected to compete for the Oscar 2009, and won the Ariel for Best Animated Short Film, Best Animated Short Film at FICM 2008 and was part of the International Critics' Week at Cannes 2009.

That same year, she directed ten animated short films of a minute under the technique 2d for Batallón 52, in honor of the Bicentennial and Centenary of the Independence and Mexican Revolution. His short film, La noria, won an Ariel in 2013 for Best Short Film and several international awards such as the Jury Prize at the Latin American Film Festival in Biarritz, France. He made the series Félix, el coleccionista de miedos (2011), which includes 26 chapters of 10 minutes each episode corresponds to the adaptation of an illustrated album from the OQO editorial catalogue. It is currently broadcast on a children's segment of channel 11. Several of its chapters have been awarded at the International Television Festival in Barcelona.

She has been a jury of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Cuba, as well as the Guadalajara International Film Festival, Chihuahua International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival and the Chilemonos Festival, in Chile. She has also been a jury for the State Council for Culture and the Arts and the Call for the Program to Encourage Cinematographic Creators 2015 in the screenplay and argument category. She is currently in the production stage of her first feature animated stop motion, Jack y la muerte.

Other Movies

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¡Aoquic iez in Mexico! ¡Ya México no existirá más!

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.”

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Ziuta travesías

Ziuta travesías

Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life.

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Zinzindurrunkarratz

Zinzindurrunkarratz

Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way.

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