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Adriana Monteforte

Monteforte Lahera; Adriana

Animation, Direction
Adriana Monteforte Lahera is a Mexican animator and film director. Her work is distinguished by its continuous exploration of new ways of representing Mexico and its culture, using animation to evoke the mystical and magical dimensions of daily life, along with themes of memory, absence, and melancholy. Her artistic proposal merges documentary and fiction techniques, personal writing, and visual experimentation, with a special interest in spatial composition.
She majored in Graphic Design at the Ibero-American University, completed a Master’s degree in Documentary Animation at the Royal College of Art in London, and graduated with distinction for her research project. She also received training in gouache painting and TVPaint animation.
Throughout her professional career, she has worked with techniques such as 2D and 3D animation, traditional animation, and motion graphics. In addition to this, she has collaborated on commercial projects for brands and institutions including the Mexican Secretariat of Tourism, TED Conferences (Technology, Entertainment, Design), AT&T, and Milky Way. She also contributed to the production of an animated sequence for a Natalia Lafourcade music video as part of Netflix’s Song Exploder.
Her current work continues to focus on exploring the boundaries between documentary and narrative animation, with the aim of creating an authorial proposal that discovers new ways of portraying Mexico and those who live there.

Other Movies

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
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

Vidas en la orilla
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

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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

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