Image Ibaven, Michelle She studied communication at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico, and did postgraduate studies at the Madrid Film School, Spain: in documentary film directing and screenwriting, and directing of photography for digital film. She received the “David Alfaro Siqueiros” Artistic Creation and Development Stimulus Program grant, in Chihuahua, on two occasions in 2010 and in 2012. She won the Best Short Film Documentary award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG, in Spanish), Mexico, with her short documentary film Coyera (2009). She won the award for Best Documentary by a Woman at the 10th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) for her first feature length documentary No hay lugar lejano (2012), which was shown at more than 20 film screenings and festivals around the world and won, among other prizes, a Jury Special Mention at the 23rd Festival Présence Autochtone, Montreal, and three awards for Best Documentary: at the 7th Ecozine International Film and Environment Festival of Zaragoza, Spain; the 11th Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF), Nepal; and the 5th “Cinema Planeta” International Film and Environment Festival, Mexico City. 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 The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25 When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Ibaven, Michelle She studied communication at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico, and did postgraduate studies at the Madrid Film School, Spain: in documentary film directing and screenwriting, and directing of photography for digital film. She received the “David Alfaro Siqueiros” Artistic Creation and Development Stimulus Program grant, in Chihuahua, on two occasions in 2010 and in 2012. She won the Best Short Film Documentary award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG, in Spanish), Mexico, with her short documentary film Coyera (2009). She won the award for Best Documentary by a Woman at the 10th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) for her first feature length documentary No hay lugar lejano (2012), which was shown at more than 20 film screenings and festivals around the world and won, among other prizes, a Jury Special Mention at the 23rd Festival Présence Autochtone, Montreal, and three awards for Best Documentary: at the 7th Ecozine International Film and Environment Festival of Zaragoza, Spain; the 11th Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF), Nepal; and the 5th “Cinema Planeta” International Film and Environment Festival, Mexico City.
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
The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25 When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25
When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25
