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 Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More Related News The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24 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.
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
