Image Mercado, Érika She studied communication at the University of the Americas in Puebla (UDLAP) and received a master’s degree in audiovisual production from the National Audiovisual Institute INA SUP, Bry-sur-Marne, France. She received, among other scholarships, the Young Creators Grant in the video category in 2006 and the Foreign Studies Grant 2008-2010, both from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico. As co-director with Alejandro Jiménez Ramos and Mario Trueba, she won the Best Short Documentary for Bendita muerte (2003) at the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), in addition to the Best Documentary Award at the 1st Festival Aquí y en Corto, Puebla, and the Audience Award at the 4th Festival of Latin American Documentary and Photography in Spain. She won the Short Film Production and Post-production Grant from the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) and the Puebla State Council for Culture and the Arts (CECAP) for her short documentary La visión de Casimira (2014). She is the producer of the feature film La danza del hipocampo (2014) by Gabriela D. Ruvacalba, selected for the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG). 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 Mercado, Érika She studied communication at the University of the Americas in Puebla (UDLAP) and received a master’s degree in audiovisual production from the National Audiovisual Institute INA SUP, Bry-sur-Marne, France. She received, among other scholarships, the Young Creators Grant in the video category in 2006 and the Foreign Studies Grant 2008-2010, both from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico. As co-director with Alejandro Jiménez Ramos and Mario Trueba, she won the Best Short Documentary for Bendita muerte (2003) at the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), in addition to the Best Documentary Award at the 1st Festival Aquí y en Corto, Puebla, and the Audience Award at the 4th Festival of Latin American Documentary and Photography in Spain. She won the Short Film Production and Post-production Grant from the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) and the Puebla State Council for Culture and the Arts (CECAP) for her short documentary La visión de Casimira (2014). She is the producer of the feature film La danza del hipocampo (2014) by Gabriela D. Ruvacalba, selected for the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG).
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
