Image Coello, Antonio He studied communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico; a graduate course in screenwriting at the CCC film school, Mexico City; a post graduate course in 35mm filmmaking at the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) and Stage Management Workshop in EICTV film school, Cuba. He received a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) on various occasions. His work has participated in more than 40 film festivals and showings around the world. His short fiction film El rey de Zinacantán (2003), which participated in the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), won the Manuel Barbachano Ponce Award for Best Work at the 6th Geografías Suaves Festival in Mérida, among other prizes. He participated in the 6th FICM with Chimbumbe (2008), winner of the India Catalina Award for Best Fiction Short Film at the 50th Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), Colombia, and was named Best Short Film at the Latin American showing of the 19th São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil, among others. He is currently a fellow of the National System of Art Creators and works in post-production of his debut Siete filos . 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 The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Coello, Antonio He studied communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico; a graduate course in screenwriting at the CCC film school, Mexico City; a post graduate course in 35mm filmmaking at the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC) and Stage Management Workshop in EICTV film school, Cuba. He received a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) on various occasions. His work has participated in more than 40 film festivals and showings around the world. His short fiction film El rey de Zinacantán (2003), which participated in the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), won the Manuel Barbachano Ponce Award for Best Work at the 6th Geografías Suaves Festival in Mérida, among other prizes. He participated in the 6th FICM with Chimbumbe (2008), winner of the India Catalina Award for Best Fiction Short Film at the 50th Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), Colombia, and was named Best Short Film at the Latin American showing of the 19th São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil, among others. He is currently a fellow of the National System of Art Creators and works in post-production of his debut Siete filos .
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
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
