Image Lara, Gabriela She studied communication at the Iberoamerican University (UIA, in Spanish), Mexico City, actor direction at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV, in Spanish) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, and received a master’s degree in film directing from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), Czech Republic. She was part of Berlinale Talents in 2006. She has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). She competed with her short fiction film Still Life (2006) in the 5th FICM and in the 10th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF). In the same edition of GIFF, she won First Place in the category of Feature Film at the 6th National Screenwriting Competition, for her screenplay Restaurante. This feature film project was part of the production workshop Morelia LAB at the 6th FICM. In the same edition of FICM she participated with her short fiction film Army of me (mi armada) (2007). In 2013, she received a grant from the Fiscal Stimulus for Investment Projects in National Film Production and Distribution (EFICINE) to make her first feature film Restaurante, which is still in the pre-production stage. 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 “I want cinema to remain independent of power”: Interview with Lucrecia Martel 03 · 06 · 26 Kleber Mendonça Filho: cinefilia y memoria en EL AGENTE SECRETO 02 · 27 · 26 Filmmaking without fear: Robin Campillo and the legacy of Laurent Cantet at ENZO 02 · 20 · 26 Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel, vicepresidente del FICM, recibió las insignias de Caballero en la Orden de las Artes y las Letras 02 · 18 · 26 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Lara, Gabriela She studied communication at the Iberoamerican University (UIA, in Spanish), Mexico City, actor direction at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV, in Spanish) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, and received a master’s degree in film directing from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), Czech Republic. She was part of Berlinale Talents in 2006. She has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). She competed with her short fiction film Still Life (2006) in the 5th FICM and in the 10th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF). In the same edition of GIFF, she won First Place in the category of Feature Film at the 6th National Screenwriting Competition, for her screenplay Restaurante. This feature film project was part of the production workshop Morelia LAB at the 6th FICM. In the same edition of FICM she participated with her short fiction film Army of me (mi armada) (2007). In 2013, she received a grant from the Fiscal Stimulus for Investment Projects in National Film Production and Distribution (EFICINE) to make her first feature film Restaurante, which is still in the pre-production stage.
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
“I want cinema to remain independent of power”: Interview with Lucrecia Martel 03 · 06 · 26 Kleber Mendonça Filho: cinefilia y memoria en EL AGENTE SECRETO 02 · 27 · 26 Filmmaking without fear: Robin Campillo and the legacy of Laurent Cantet at ENZO 02 · 20 · 26 Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel, vicepresidente del FICM, recibió las insignias de Caballero en la Orden de las Artes y las Letras 02 · 18 · 26
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel, vicepresidente del FICM, recibió las insignias de Caballero en la Orden de las Artes y las Letras 02 · 18 · 26
