Image Hofmann; Sebastián He studied film at the Arts Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. He is the founder of the creative studio PIANO and has participated in numerous national and international film festivals, including two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He worked as photography director, editor and co-screenwriter in the feature film Canícula (2011), by José Álvarez, that was part of the Official Selection of the 9th FICM and that won, among other awards, the critics’ award FIPRESCI at the 14th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) in Greece; the SIGNIS Award at the 24th Toulouse Latin American Film Festival, France; and the Young Jury Award at the 1st Riviera Maya Film Festival (RMFF), Mexico. He competed in the 10th FICM with his short fiction film Ismael (2012) and his first feature Halley (2012). Halley was shown at more than 50 film festivals around the world, including the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and the 29th Sundance Film Festival, and won, among other awards, the Best New Director award at the 31st Munich Film Festival, Germany; the New Visions award at the 46th SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Barcelona; and Best Photography at the 34th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), South Africa. He was the photography director of the documentary feature by Nicolás Echevarría, Eco de la montaña (2013), which won the Jury Special Award and the Mezcal Award for Best Mexican Picture at the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), and the Best Documentary Award at the 18th Film Festival of Lima, Peru. 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 Halley, tras las pistas de nuestra propia decadencia: Entrevista con el director Sebastián Hofmann 08 · 16 · 21 De la artificialidad a la reflexión: Entrevista con Sebastián Hofmann 08 · 29 · 18 Estos son los mexicanos que ganaron en Sundance 2018 01 · 29 · 18 Mexicanos en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Rotterdam 2018 01 · 25 · 18 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Hofmann; Sebastián He studied film at the Arts Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. He is the founder of the creative studio PIANO and has participated in numerous national and international film festivals, including two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He worked as photography director, editor and co-screenwriter in the feature film Canícula (2011), by José Álvarez, that was part of the Official Selection of the 9th FICM and that won, among other awards, the critics’ award FIPRESCI at the 14th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) in Greece; the SIGNIS Award at the 24th Toulouse Latin American Film Festival, France; and the Young Jury Award at the 1st Riviera Maya Film Festival (RMFF), Mexico. He competed in the 10th FICM with his short fiction film Ismael (2012) and his first feature Halley (2012). Halley was shown at more than 50 film festivals around the world, including the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and the 29th Sundance Film Festival, and won, among other awards, the Best New Director award at the 31st Munich Film Festival, Germany; the New Visions award at the 46th SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Barcelona; and Best Photography at the 34th Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), South Africa. He was the photography director of the documentary feature by Nicolás Echevarría, Eco de la montaña (2013), which won the Jury Special Award and the Mezcal Award for Best Mexican Picture at the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), and the Best Documentary Award at the 18th Film Festival of Lima, Peru.
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
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Halley, tras las pistas de nuestra propia decadencia: Entrevista con el director Sebastián Hofmann 08 · 16 · 21
