Image Hartley; Jill She studied visual arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and fine arts and ethnographic film at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States. She participated in the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with her documentary short film 50 años de Cha-cha-chá (2003), about the history of the musical genre the film is named after, through the Orquesta América and narrated by its founder, Ninón Mondéjar, in Havana, Cuba. This work received the award for Best Documentary at the 7th Los Angeles International Shorts Film Festival, LA Shorts Fest, California, and was also presented at more than 10 film screenings and festivals around the world, including the 25th International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba; the 1st Chicago International Documentary Film Festival (CIDF), Illinois; and the 2nd DocumentaMadrid International Madrid Documentary Film Festival, Spain. As a photographer she has worked on several projects and important magazines in Paris and New York. Her publications include the books Poland (1995) and Lotería Fotográfica Mexicana (1995), a tribute to the variety of picture cards of the popular Mexican game. 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 The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Hartley; Jill She studied visual arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and fine arts and ethnographic film at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States. She participated in the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with her documentary short film 50 años de Cha-cha-chá (2003), about the history of the musical genre the film is named after, through the Orquesta América and narrated by its founder, Ninón Mondéjar, in Havana, Cuba. This work received the award for Best Documentary at the 7th Los Angeles International Shorts Film Festival, LA Shorts Fest, California, and was also presented at more than 10 film screenings and festivals around the world, including the 25th International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba; the 1st Chicago International Documentary Film Festival (CIDF), Illinois; and the 2nd DocumentaMadrid International Madrid Documentary Film Festival, Spain. As a photographer she has worked on several projects and important magazines in Paris and New York. Her publications include the books Poland (1995) and Lotería Fotográfica Mexicana (1995), a tribute to the variety of picture cards of the popular Mexican game.
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
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
