Image Magaña, Jaime He studied linguistics and Maya Culture at the Universidad de Oriente (UNO), Valladolid, Yucatan, and visual arts with the independent Mexican collective Yoochel Kaaj and the project Ambulante Más Allás (AMA) of the Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. A native speaker of Yucatecan Maya, he is a teacher of basic education, promoter of community museums, video filmmaker and musician. He is a founding member of the collectives TV Turix, since 2002, and Tzay Kin, since 2013, as well as the musical group Saatal Paax. He is currently developing radio programs and art with sound in Yucatecan Maya for Internet radio with the collective Tzay Kin. He has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). In the 1st FICM, he competed with the documentary short film Los remedios (2003). His collective work, Negro del pozo (2004), participated in the 13th Native American Film and Video Festival (NAFVF) of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), New York, of the Smithsonian Institution. He participated with his short fiction film Guardianes del Mayab (2012) in the First Nations Forum of the 10th FICM; in the 6th International Film Festival on Human Rights in Mexico (DHFEST); and in the 4th OC Film Fiesta, California, United States, among others. 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 Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 Nuria Ibáñez on EL GUARDIÁN and How Cinema Helps Us Think About What’s Foreign to Us at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 “The Process is the Only Part of Cinema That's Ours”: Elisa Miller Presents BITÁCORA DE DIRECCIÓN DE TEMPORADA DE HURACANES 10 · 13 · 25 Activities for Impulso Morelia 11 Begin at the 23th FICM 10 · 13 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Magaña, Jaime He studied linguistics and Maya Culture at the Universidad de Oriente (UNO), Valladolid, Yucatan, and visual arts with the independent Mexican collective Yoochel Kaaj and the project Ambulante Más Allás (AMA) of the Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. A native speaker of Yucatecan Maya, he is a teacher of basic education, promoter of community museums, video filmmaker and musician. He is a founding member of the collectives TV Turix, since 2002, and Tzay Kin, since 2013, as well as the musical group Saatal Paax. He is currently developing radio programs and art with sound in Yucatecan Maya for Internet radio with the collective Tzay Kin. He has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). In the 1st FICM, he competed with the documentary short film Los remedios (2003). His collective work, Negro del pozo (2004), participated in the 13th Native American Film and Video Festival (NAFVF) of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), New York, of the Smithsonian Institution. He participated with his short fiction film Guardianes del Mayab (2012) in the First Nations Forum of the 10th FICM; in the 6th International Film Festival on Human Rights in Mexico (DHFEST); and in the 4th OC Film Fiesta, California, United States, among others.
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 Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 Nuria Ibáñez on EL GUARDIÁN and How Cinema Helps Us Think About What’s Foreign to Us at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 “The Process is the Only Part of Cinema That's Ours”: Elisa Miller Presents BITÁCORA DE DIRECCIÓN DE TEMPORADA DE HURACANES 10 · 13 · 25 Activities for Impulso Morelia 11 Begin at the 23th FICM 10 · 13 · 25
The Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
Nuria Ibáñez on EL GUARDIÁN and How Cinema Helps Us Think About What’s Foreign to Us at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
“The Process is the Only Part of Cinema That's Ours”: Elisa Miller Presents BITÁCORA DE DIRECCIÓN DE TEMPORADA DE HURACANES 10 · 13 · 25
