Image Figueroa, José Luis He studied law at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). His work has been presented at more than 10 film showings and festivals around the world. He participated in the 7th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and in the Cine Distrital International Festival: Mexican Film and Other Worlds, Mexico, among other festivals, with his feature-length documentary Tijuaneados anónimos: Una lágrima, una sonrisa (2009); which won the Best Local Film award at the 18th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. His feature documentary Tierra brillante (2011) won the Best Film award at the 8th Festival International du Film Métiers d’Art, Montpellier, France, and the 1st International Festival of Indigenous Film and Video (FICVI), Puebla. It also won the Culture and Archaeological Heritage Award at the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Edinburgh, Scotland. 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 Figueroa, José Luis He studied law at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). His work has been presented at more than 10 film showings and festivals around the world. He participated in the 7th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and in the Cine Distrital International Festival: Mexican Film and Other Worlds, Mexico, among other festivals, with his feature-length documentary Tijuaneados anónimos: Una lágrima, una sonrisa (2009); which won the Best Local Film award at the 18th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. His feature documentary Tierra brillante (2011) won the Best Film award at the 8th Festival International du Film Métiers d’Art, Montpellier, France, and the 1st International Festival of Indigenous Film and Video (FICVI), Puebla. It also won the Culture and Archaeological Heritage Award at the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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
