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 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 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).
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
