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Espitia; Manuela Irene

She studied his bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Television at CENTRO, Mexico City, and her master’s degree in Screenplay at the London Film School (LFS), London.

With her project Monstruo de Xibalbá, she obtained the Young Creators Scholarship of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in 2010. In 2013 she participated in the Cinematographic Screenplay International Workshop Cine Qua Non Lab (CQNL) based in Tzintzuntzán, Michoacán. In the same year she participated in the Course on Development of Ibero-American Cinematographic Projects of the IBERMEDIA Program and the Carolina Foundation. In 2018 she was selected for the IMCINE and the TyPa Foundation workshop for first and second films, which was carried out in Splendor Omnia, Tepoztlán. Her short film Un gesto (2015) was part of the Short Film Official Selection of the festivals: 13th Morelia International Film Festival (2015), the 28th Cinelatino Toulouse Festival (2016), Shorts Mexico (2016), among others. In January 2018 she filmed the short film Sol del llano in Colombia and co-edited the feature film El paraíso de la serpiente, by director Bernardo Arellano; both films are part of the Official Selection of the 17th Morelia International Film Festival.

Other Movies

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
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

Vidas en la orilla
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

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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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