Image Merino, Martha Cristiana She took a course in art history at the Instituto de Cultura Superior in Mexico City and a writers’ workshop with Mexican writer Ana Terán. She took various classes in theater and film, including a class with Lola Cohen at The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute, Santa Monica, and another in documentary development research with Thom Powers, the programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), at New York University (NYU). She received the Best Experimental Short Film Award at the 4th Corona Fasnet Short Film Festival, Ireland, for Alterego y la máscara del miedo (2011), which also participated in the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), the 8th International Short Film Festival FENACO, Peru, and the 8th Monterrey International Film Festival (FIC Monterrey), among others. She is currently seeking funds for her first feature film project La alacrana and is writing the screenplay for her documentary A Kidnap: The Other Side of the Coin. 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 Merino, Martha Cristiana She took a course in art history at the Instituto de Cultura Superior in Mexico City and a writers’ workshop with Mexican writer Ana Terán. She took various classes in theater and film, including a class with Lola Cohen at The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute, Santa Monica, and another in documentary development research with Thom Powers, the programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), at New York University (NYU). She received the Best Experimental Short Film Award at the 4th Corona Fasnet Short Film Festival, Ireland, for Alterego y la máscara del miedo (2011), which also participated in the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), the 8th International Short Film Festival FENACO, Peru, and the 8th Monterrey International Film Festival (FIC Monterrey), among others. She is currently seeking funds for her first feature film project La alacrana and is writing the screenplay for her documentary A Kidnap: The Other Side of the Coin.
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
