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 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 Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. 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.
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
Ziuta travesías Ziuta, a Polish Jewish survivor of World War II, was an extraordinary woman who sparked special devotion for her political commitment and her support for clandestine struggle. As a teenager, Ziuta weathered exile with fortitude and determination, saving her mother and other relatives from perishing in their flight. Despite the horrors and scarcity she endured, she upheld a grateful outlook on life. See More
Zinzindurrunkarratz Oskar Alegría embarks on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that once belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd: the journey of transhumance that his grandfather undertook in his youth, following now-forgotten coordinates. The result is a film that delights in the search —as well as the many detours along the way. 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
