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Karla Castañeda

Castañeda Ortega; Karla

Animation, Direction
Karla Castañeda Ortega is a Mexican filmmaker, film director, and animator specialized in stop motion. She majored in Painting and Illustration at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra, Spain, and later she majored in Communication Sciences at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education [ITESO, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente].
In 2007, she directed her debut short film Jacinta, which won the Ariel Award for Best Animated Short Film and the Ojo for Best Mexican Animated Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival. Additionally, the short film was shortlisted for the Academy Awards (Oscars) and screened at Cannes Critics’ Week.
A few years later, she directed the stop-motion animated short film La noria [The Waterwheel], which earned her a second Ariel Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2013, along with distinctions at the Guanajuato International Film Festival, the Guadalajara International Film Festival, and the Biarritz Latin American Film Festival in France.

Other Movies

The Conformist

El Conformista
In Fascist Italy in 1938, Marcello Clerici is eager to be accepted into the social circles of the regime, which he admires. His opportunity arises when he is ordered to track down, in Paris, a former professor of his—now an opponent of Mussolini—and assassinate him. See More

The Conformist

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In Fascist Italy in 1938, Marcello Clerici is eager to be accepted into the social circles of the regime, which he admires. His opportunity arises when he is ordered to track down, in Paris, a former professor of his—now an opponent of Mussolini—and assassinate him. See More

The Conformist

logo FICM
In Fascist Italy in 1938, Marcello Clerici is eager to be accepted into the social circles of the regime, which he admires. His opportunity arises when he is ordered to track down, in Paris, a former professor of his—now an opponent of Mussolini—and assassinate him. See More

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