Image Oñate Chirot, Juan Carlos He studied communication at the Universidad Latina de América (UNLA) in Morelia. He took a course in film direction and production and workshops in photography and filmmaking at the Solaris Film Academy, and a workshop in animation and digital photography at the Escuela Fábrica de Imágenes. He received the Cine Qua Non Lab artists’ residency for filmmakers in Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán. He participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). In the 1st FICM he presented Teme Nina (2003) and participated in the Mexican Short Film Section in competition with Lo que la polla da (2002), which he co-directed with Juan Paulín Lara, Jesús Pimentel Melo and Luciana Solórzano. He competed in the same section at the 11th FICM with Una estatua mutilada (2013); which won a Special Mention at the 6th Mórbido International Fantasy and Horror Film Festival, Michoacán. His animated short film El camino del caracol (2010) won third place in the 1st State Short Film Competition on Social Consciousness “We are all to blame,” organized by Acción Unida, Morelia, and second place in the 1st Michoacán Short Film competition. 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 Oñate Chirot, Juan Carlos He studied communication at the Universidad Latina de América (UNLA) in Morelia. He took a course in film direction and production and workshops in photography and filmmaking at the Solaris Film Academy, and a workshop in animation and digital photography at the Escuela Fábrica de Imágenes. He received the Cine Qua Non Lab artists’ residency for filmmakers in Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán. He participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). In the 1st FICM he presented Teme Nina (2003) and participated in the Mexican Short Film Section in competition with Lo que la polla da (2002), which he co-directed with Juan Paulín Lara, Jesús Pimentel Melo and Luciana Solórzano. He competed in the same section at the 11th FICM with Una estatua mutilada (2013); which won a Special Mention at the 6th Mórbido International Fantasy and Horror Film Festival, Michoacán. His animated short film El camino del caracol (2010) won third place in the 1st State Short Film Competition on Social Consciousness “We are all to blame,” organized by Acción Unida, Morelia, and second place in the 1st Michoacán Short Film competition.
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
