Image Mora Catlett; Juan He received a master’s degree in film editing from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), Czech Republic. He was a member of the National System of Creators of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico, and won, among other awards, the National University Award (PUN, in Spanish) in the category of Teaching of the Arts in 2009 for his career in training filmmakers at the CUEC-UNAM film school. His work has participated in more than 40 film showings and festivals around the world, including two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). His first feature film Retorno a Aztlán (In Necuepaliztli in Aztlan) (1990), the first Mexican film spoken totally in an indigenous language, won the Grand Jury Special Award at the 7th Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy. He participated in the 4th FICM with his feature film Eréndira la indomable (2006), nominated for an Ariel for Best Special Effects at the 49th Ariel Awards Ceremony, Mexico, and won the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 8th Indio International Hispanic Film Festival (iihfilmfest), California, and a Special Mention at the 10th South American Film Encounters, Marseille. In 2007 he received an award from the Secretary of Public Education (SEP), Mexico, on UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, for the dissemination of indigenous languages in the mass media (Náhuatl in Retorno a Aztlán and Purépecha in Eréndira la indomable). He presented his short documentary film Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Fotógrafo (1983) at the 11th FICM, which was nominated for an Ariel for Best Documentary at the 25th Ariel Awards Ceremony. He is currently in the production process of his documentary Tlalocan, la ciudad de los dioses. 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 Mora Catlett; Juan He received a master’s degree in film editing from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), Czech Republic. He was a member of the National System of Creators of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico, and won, among other awards, the National University Award (PUN, in Spanish) in the category of Teaching of the Arts in 2009 for his career in training filmmakers at the CUEC-UNAM film school. His work has participated in more than 40 film showings and festivals around the world, including two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). His first feature film Retorno a Aztlán (In Necuepaliztli in Aztlan) (1990), the first Mexican film spoken totally in an indigenous language, won the Grand Jury Special Award at the 7th Latin American Film Festival of Trieste, Italy. He participated in the 4th FICM with his feature film Eréndira la indomable (2006), nominated for an Ariel for Best Special Effects at the 49th Ariel Awards Ceremony, Mexico, and won the Best Picture and Best Director awards at the 8th Indio International Hispanic Film Festival (iihfilmfest), California, and a Special Mention at the 10th South American Film Encounters, Marseille. In 2007 he received an award from the Secretary of Public Education (SEP), Mexico, on UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, for the dissemination of indigenous languages in the mass media (Náhuatl in Retorno a Aztlán and Purépecha in Eréndira la indomable). He presented his short documentary film Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Fotógrafo (1983) at the 11th FICM, which was nominated for an Ariel for Best Documentary at the 25th Ariel Awards Ceremony. He is currently in the production process of his documentary Tlalocan, la ciudad de los dioses.
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
