Image García Besné, Viviana She studied graphic communication at the National School of Visual Arts (ENAP) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has participated in various conferences and roundtables at national and international festivals, including “Documentary and the Film Industry”, together with programmer Mara Fortes and director Everardo González, at the 2nd London MexFest, England; and “Memory and Subjectivity. Physical and Emotional Restoration” at the 1st Muestra Silencios Históricos y Personales, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to her work as director, she is also a screenwriter and editor of various films, including the feature film by Michelle Ibaven, No hay lugar lejano (2012), where she worked as editor. The film was presented at more than 20 film screenings and festivals around the world and won Best Documentary Made by a Woman at the 10th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), among other awards. She also worked in the restoration and preservation of institutions like the UNAM Film Archives, in 2008, and the Agrasánchez Film Archive, Mexico, from 2006 to 2009. She worked as a teacher at the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC), Barcelona, and the CCC film school in Mexico City. She worked on the screenplay, editing and visual effects of the documentary El revés del tapiz de la locura (2006) by Maite Bermúdez, which was exhibited at the Pompidou Center, Paris, in 2008. Her first documentary film Perdida (2010) has been shown at more than 40 festivals around the world, including the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and the 12th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI). The film won an Honorable Mention at the 25th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG); the Lucía Carbajal Prize at the 7th Iberoamerican Documentary Film Festival of Memory (FMDI), Cuernavaca; and the Silver Goddess Francisco Pina at the 40th Silver Goddess Awards, Mexico. She is currently working on the screenplay of the documentary Coleccionista de sombras and on the editing of the documentary El hombre que vio demasiado by filmmaker Trisha Ziff. 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 World Premiere of the New Restoration of Santo contra Cerebro del Mal at the 68th Berlinale 02 · 21 · 18 Santo contra hombres infernales had an outdoor screening at the 15th FICM 10 · 27 · 17 Help save the Permanencia Voluntaria film archive 09 · 25 · 17 El FICM lamenta el fallecimiento de Guillermo Calderón Stell 08 · 23 · 17 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image García Besné, Viviana She studied graphic communication at the National School of Visual Arts (ENAP) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has participated in various conferences and roundtables at national and international festivals, including “Documentary and the Film Industry”, together with programmer Mara Fortes and director Everardo González, at the 2nd London MexFest, England; and “Memory and Subjectivity. Physical and Emotional Restoration” at the 1st Muestra Silencios Históricos y Personales, Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to her work as director, she is also a screenwriter and editor of various films, including the feature film by Michelle Ibaven, No hay lugar lejano (2012), where she worked as editor. The film was presented at more than 20 film screenings and festivals around the world and won Best Documentary Made by a Woman at the 10th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), among other awards. She also worked in the restoration and preservation of institutions like the UNAM Film Archives, in 2008, and the Agrasánchez Film Archive, Mexico, from 2006 to 2009. She worked as a teacher at the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC), Barcelona, and the CCC film school in Mexico City. She worked on the screenplay, editing and visual effects of the documentary El revés del tapiz de la locura (2006) by Maite Bermúdez, which was exhibited at the Pompidou Center, Paris, in 2008. Her first documentary film Perdida (2010) has been shown at more than 40 festivals around the world, including the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and the 12th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI). The film won an Honorable Mention at the 25th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG); the Lucía Carbajal Prize at the 7th Iberoamerican Documentary Film Festival of Memory (FMDI), Cuernavaca; and the Silver Goddess Francisco Pina at the 40th Silver Goddess Awards, Mexico. She is currently working on the screenplay of the documentary Coleccionista de sombras and on the editing of the documentary El hombre que vio demasiado by filmmaker Trisha Ziff.
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
World Premiere of the New Restoration of Santo contra Cerebro del Mal at the 68th Berlinale 02 · 21 · 18 Santo contra hombres infernales had an outdoor screening at the 15th FICM 10 · 27 · 17 Help save the Permanencia Voluntaria film archive 09 · 25 · 17 El FICM lamenta el fallecimiento de Guillermo Calderón Stell 08 · 23 · 17
World Premiere of the New Restoration of Santo contra Cerebro del Mal at the 68th Berlinale 02 · 21 · 18
