Image Martínez del Cañizo, Itzel She received a bachelor’s degree in Communication at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). Since 2000 she has been working to develop collaborative documentary projects, exploring the audiovisual possibilities of different working methodologies. She oversaw the creation of Cuarto Proprio in Tijuana; is the Founding Director of the BorDocs Documentary Forum at the northern border of Mexico; has taught at the Autonomous University of Baja California and the Universidad Iberoamericano; works in public relations at a AIA Post & Color post-production studio and also for Polen between 2010 and 2013. She has taken a range of workshops and courses related to cinema, research, visual arts and has also taken part in the following training initiatives: DOCULAB (FICG), DOCS Forum (DOCS DF) and MoreliaLAB (FICM). She has received financial support from the Young Creators scholarship from the National Fund for Culture and Arts (Jovenes Creadres del Fondo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, FONCA), as well as project development support from IMCINE and the Fund for Quality Cinema Production (Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad – FOPROCINE-IMCINE), among others. Her documentaries have been screened at many festivals, including three editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA); Ambulante Documentary Tour; the Utrecht Latin American Film Festival and the Festival Internacional de Mujeres en el Cine y la Televisión, among others. Her documentary Que suene la calle (2006) won, among other prizes, the Jury Award at the 4th San Diego Women’s Film Festival, plus a Special Mention and the Signis Award for Communication at the 3rd Encuentro Hispanico de Cine y Video Documental Independiente Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces in Mexico. Her feature documentary El hogar al revés (2014) was part of the official selection at the 12th Morelia Internatioanl Film Festival (FICM). 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 Martínez del Cañizo, Itzel She received a bachelor’s degree in Communication at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). Since 2000 she has been working to develop collaborative documentary projects, exploring the audiovisual possibilities of different working methodologies. She oversaw the creation of Cuarto Proprio in Tijuana; is the Founding Director of the BorDocs Documentary Forum at the northern border of Mexico; has taught at the Autonomous University of Baja California and the Universidad Iberoamericano; works in public relations at a AIA Post & Color post-production studio and also for Polen between 2010 and 2013. She has taken a range of workshops and courses related to cinema, research, visual arts and has also taken part in the following training initiatives: DOCULAB (FICG), DOCS Forum (DOCS DF) and MoreliaLAB (FICM). She has received financial support from the Young Creators scholarship from the National Fund for Culture and Arts (Jovenes Creadres del Fondo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, FONCA), as well as project development support from IMCINE and the Fund for Quality Cinema Production (Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad – FOPROCINE-IMCINE), among others. Her documentaries have been screened at many festivals, including three editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA); Ambulante Documentary Tour; the Utrecht Latin American Film Festival and the Festival Internacional de Mujeres en el Cine y la Televisión, among others. Her documentary Que suene la calle (2006) won, among other prizes, the Jury Award at the 4th San Diego Women’s Film Festival, plus a Special Mention and the Signis Award for Communication at the 3rd Encuentro Hispanico de Cine y Video Documental Independiente Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces in Mexico. Her feature documentary El hogar al revés (2014) was part of the official selection at the 12th Morelia Internatioanl Film Festival (FICM).
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
