Image Fairbanks, Charles He studied the programs in Art and Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University and a masters degree in Art and Design at Michigan Univesity, in the United States. He has received scholarships and participated in artist residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Wexner Art Center Film & Video Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony. In 2010, his short film Irma was selected in a number of festivals and won awards such as the Short: Dox at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and the Eileen Maitland Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. That same year he presented Flexing Muscles, a short film that was shown in festivals such as the Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival (DocsDF), in Mexico; the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, in the United States; and Visions du Réel, in Switzerland. Flexing Muscles also won the Jury Award at the Atlanta Film Festival. He has worked in Mexico since 2001, as a photographer, filmmaker and professor in video art at the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas (UNICACH). He has also imparted workshops on filmmaking on mobile phones for young scholars from the indigenous communities of Casa de la Mujer, in Oaxaca. His first feature film, co-directed with Saul Kak, La selva negra (2016), part of the Official Selection of the 14th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), has been shown in festivals like the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), in México, and Visions du Réel, in Switzerland, among others. He is currently a professor of film in Ohio, United States. 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 Fairbanks, Charles He studied the programs in Art and Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University and a masters degree in Art and Design at Michigan Univesity, in the United States. He has received scholarships and participated in artist residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Wexner Art Center Film & Video Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony. In 2010, his short film Irma was selected in a number of festivals and won awards such as the Short: Dox at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and the Eileen Maitland Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. That same year he presented Flexing Muscles, a short film that was shown in festivals such as the Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival (DocsDF), in Mexico; the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, in the United States; and Visions du Réel, in Switzerland. Flexing Muscles also won the Jury Award at the Atlanta Film Festival. He has worked in Mexico since 2001, as a photographer, filmmaker and professor in video art at the University of Sciences and Arts of Chiapas (UNICACH). He has also imparted workshops on filmmaking on mobile phones for young scholars from the indigenous communities of Casa de la Mujer, in Oaxaca. His first feature film, co-directed with Saul Kak, La selva negra (2016), part of the Official Selection of the 14th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), has been shown in festivals like the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), in México, and Visions du Réel, in Switzerland, among others. He is currently a professor of film in Ohio, United States.
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
