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Fernanda Tovar

Tovar ; Fernanda

Direction, Edition, Photography, Script, Production

She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Cinematography with a specialty in Direction at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. She also attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in the Warner Bros course. Producing and Directing in 2011. She studied the Technical Career in Active School of Cinematography in 2015 and the Master's Degree in Cinematography Direction in Escuela de Cinema i Audiovisuals of Catalunya in 2018. That same year, she was a FONCA fellow to write Una chica triste with the mentorship of Lucía Carreras and Ernesto Contreras. Subsequently, the script was selected for the Cine Qua Non Lab workshop.

In 2020, she was part of Berlinale Talents Guadalajara and, later, in the first edition of Berlinale Talents Latinoamérica: Memorias de un territorio. In 2022, her short film Mi edad, la tuya y la edad del mundo was screened at Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the invitation to the FICM; where it previously won a special mention. She is currently developing her first fiction feature film: Una chica triste.

Other Movies

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
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

Vidas en la orilla
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

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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

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