Image González Sáenz, Anaid She graduated in Electronic Communications Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and in Filmmaking at the University Center for Film Studies (CUEC-UNAM), in Mexico City. She has made many short films with the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) and the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA): Salvador (2011), Por todo espacio (2012), and A la salida del Metro Tlatelolco (2014). This last film won the “Mira lo que veo” contest, organized by the Secretariat of Culture of Mexico City. In 2014, her short film Playa Ventura was selected at the Beginning Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia; at the Equinoxio Festival in Bogotá, Colombia; and it was shown in venues such as the Cineteca Nacional and the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), among others. She participated in the digitalization and restoration of films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema such as Río Escondido (1947) by Emilio Fernández, El esqueleto de la señora Morales (1959) by Rogelio A. González, Rosauro Castro (1950) by Roberto Gavaldón, Cárcel de mujeres (1951) by Miguel M. Delgado, and La vida no vale nada (1955) by Rogelio A. González, among others. She is part of the Digital Restoration of Film Workshop, a project of “Toda la UNAM en Línea”, where she has given conferences on independent cinema and film identification. As a photographer, she participated in the collective exhibition “Instants Quotidians”, which was shown in Barcelona and Marseille. Her short documentary film La ciudad de los fragmentos (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th Morelia International Film Festival (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 Les presentamos los cortometrajes de animación y documental del 14º FICM 09 · 21 · 16 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image González Sáenz, Anaid She graduated in Electronic Communications Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and in Filmmaking at the University Center for Film Studies (CUEC-UNAM), in Mexico City. She has made many short films with the support of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) and the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA): Salvador (2011), Por todo espacio (2012), and A la salida del Metro Tlatelolco (2014). This last film won the “Mira lo que veo” contest, organized by the Secretariat of Culture of Mexico City. In 2014, her short film Playa Ventura was selected at the Beginning Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia; at the Equinoxio Festival in Bogotá, Colombia; and it was shown in venues such as the Cineteca Nacional and the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), among others. She participated in the digitalization and restoration of films from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema such as Río Escondido (1947) by Emilio Fernández, El esqueleto de la señora Morales (1959) by Rogelio A. González, Rosauro Castro (1950) by Roberto Gavaldón, Cárcel de mujeres (1951) by Miguel M. Delgado, and La vida no vale nada (1955) by Rogelio A. González, among others. She is part of the Digital Restoration of Film Workshop, a project of “Toda la UNAM en Línea”, where she has given conferences on independent cinema and film identification. As a photographer, she participated in the collective exhibition “Instants Quotidians”, which was shown in Barcelona and Marseille. Her short documentary film La ciudad de los fragmentos (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th Morelia International Film Festival (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
