Image Ojeda; Nayelli Animation, Direction, Production Nayelli Ojeda is a Mexican film director, producer, and animator specialized in stop motion. She holds a Master’s degree in Animation and Digital Art from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education [ITESM, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey]. In 2016, she founded Wisdom House Films, a studio where she has had the opportunity to develop animation projects. Her short film Yugen is the result of eight years of relentless development and production, combining stop motion with ceramics and natural materials such as Oaxacan clay, fibers, corn husks, cactus, ixtle, and wood. This project received the Animation Short Film Production Support from the Mexican Film Institute [IMCINE, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía] and, in 2021, was selected as a global finalist at the ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum in Poland.In addition to this, Yugen won the Best Animated Short Award at the 2026 Manchester Film Festival—a British Academy Film Awards-qualifying festival. Later, it took part in the Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The short film has also been featured in other international film festival circuits and, in 2026, became part of the Official Selection of the 24th Morelia International Film Festival, competing in the Mexican Animated Short Film category.Her professional career is distinguished by the integration of artisanal techniques and contemporary animation languages in order to create stories rooted in Mexican and Latin American culture. 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 Michoacan author José Rubén Romero 09 · 25 · 26 EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL: Herzog and the existence of the extraordinary 09 · 17 · 26 Tippett Studio and Paul Verhoeven: the end of an era between eroticism and science fiction 09 · 17 · 26 RIO, ZONA NORTE: reasons to smile 09 · 09 · 26 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Ojeda; Nayelli Animation, Direction, Production Nayelli Ojeda is a Mexican film director, producer, and animator specialized in stop motion. She holds a Master’s degree in Animation and Digital Art from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education [ITESM, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey]. In 2016, she founded Wisdom House Films, a studio where she has had the opportunity to develop animation projects. Her short film Yugen is the result of eight years of relentless development and production, combining stop motion with ceramics and natural materials such as Oaxacan clay, fibers, corn husks, cactus, ixtle, and wood. This project received the Animation Short Film Production Support from the Mexican Film Institute [IMCINE, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía] and, in 2021, was selected as a global finalist at the ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum in Poland.In addition to this, Yugen won the Best Animated Short Award at the 2026 Manchester Film Festival—a British Academy Film Awards-qualifying festival. Later, it took part in the Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The short film has also been featured in other international film festival circuits and, in 2026, became part of the Official Selection of the 24th Morelia International Film Festival, competing in the Mexican Animated Short Film category.Her professional career is distinguished by the integration of artisanal techniques and contemporary animation languages in order to create stories rooted in Mexican and Latin American culture.
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 Michoacan author José Rubén Romero 09 · 25 · 26 EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL: Herzog and the existence of the extraordinary 09 · 17 · 26 Tippett Studio and Paul Verhoeven: the end of an era between eroticism and science fiction 09 · 17 · 26 RIO, ZONA NORTE: reasons to smile 09 · 09 · 26
Tippett Studio and Paul Verhoeven: the end of an era between eroticism and science fiction 09 · 17 · 26
