Image Gajá; Lucía She studied cinematography at the CUEC-UNAM film school in Mexico City. She has received various grants and awards for her film work, including the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for her project “Cooperativa de cine marginal,” in 2009, and the University Award for Young Academics, in the area of “Creación artística y creación de la cultura,” from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in 2012. Her work has been shown at more than 60 film screenings and festivals around the world, and has been nominated on three occasions for awards by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, the Ariel. She won the award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 47th Ariel Awards for Soy (2004). She participated in the 47th Critics’ Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, France, with her first feature length documentary, Mi vida dentro (2007), which won, among other prizes, the Best Documentary Made by a Woman and Best Feature Length Documentary Awards at the 5th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the Jury Grand Prize at the 6th Paris International Film Festival on Human Rights (FIFDH, in French), Paris, France; First Place in the “Human Rights” category at the 10th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Argentina; and Best Reporting at the 5th DocumentaMadrid International Madrid Documentary Film Festival, Spain. She is currently working on her documentary feature Batallas íntimas, which has received grants from the Fund for Quality Film Production (FOPROCINE), in 2012, and the Fiscal Stimulus for Investment Projects in National Film Production and Distribution (EFICINE), in 2013. Her film Intimate battles (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM. Other Movies If I Were Fire 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 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 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 Related News Compendio de Cineastas Contemporáneas: Lucía Gajá 01 · 10 · 22 Cortometraje mexicano en línea: Nos faltan, de Lucía Gajá y Emilio Ramos 08 · 21 · 18 Lucía Gajá prepara secuela de su documental Mi vida dentro 07 · 12 · 18 Películas nominadas al Ariel 2018 que participaron en el FICM 06 · 05 · 18 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Gajá; Lucía She studied cinematography at the CUEC-UNAM film school in Mexico City. She has received various grants and awards for her film work, including the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for her project “Cooperativa de cine marginal,” in 2009, and the University Award for Young Academics, in the area of “Creación artística y creación de la cultura,” from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in 2012. Her work has been shown at more than 60 film screenings and festivals around the world, and has been nominated on three occasions for awards by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, the Ariel. She won the award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 47th Ariel Awards for Soy (2004). She participated in the 47th Critics’ Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, France, with her first feature length documentary, Mi vida dentro (2007), which won, among other prizes, the Best Documentary Made by a Woman and Best Feature Length Documentary Awards at the 5th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the Jury Grand Prize at the 6th Paris International Film Festival on Human Rights (FIFDH, in French), Paris, France; First Place in the “Human Rights” category at the 10th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Argentina; and Best Reporting at the 5th DocumentaMadrid International Madrid Documentary Film Festival, Spain. She is currently working on her documentary feature Batallas íntimas, which has received grants from the Fund for Quality Film Production (FOPROCINE), in 2012, and the Fiscal Stimulus for Investment Projects in National Film Production and Distribution (EFICINE), in 2013. Her film Intimate battles (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM.
If I Were Fire 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 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
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
Compendio de Cineastas Contemporáneas: Lucía Gajá 01 · 10 · 22 Cortometraje mexicano en línea: Nos faltan, de Lucía Gajá y Emilio Ramos 08 · 21 · 18 Lucía Gajá prepara secuela de su documental Mi vida dentro 07 · 12 · 18 Películas nominadas al Ariel 2018 que participaron en el FICM 06 · 05 · 18
