Image Pardo, Elena She studied communication at the Iberoamerican University (UIA), Mexico City, and specialized in contemporary art at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO) and at the La Curtiduría Contemporary Space for the Arts, Oaxaca. She received a scholarship from the Alfredo Harp Helú (FAHH) Foundation, Oaxaca, to attend the Clinics for Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca (CEACO). She also received a grant in 2013 for her project “Vistas oaxaqueñas” from the Program for the Artistic and Cultural Enrichment of Citizen Initiatives of the Secretary of Culture and the Arts of Oaxaca (SECULTA) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico. She has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). At the 2nd FICM, she competed with her documentary feature El rey de los coleaderos (2004), co-directed with Héctor Hernández Gutiérrez, for which she won a grant from the Promotion Program and Cultural Co-Investments of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico, and the Emerging Directors Award at the 12th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. She won First Prize in the 3rd Experimental Video Competition, Baja California, Mexico, for her animated short film Juquilita (2004), which is part of the compilation of experimental cinema “Cine a contracorriente: Latinoamérica y España”, conducted by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). She participated with her documentary short film Mi barrio (2009) in the 7th FICM, in the section “Cinema Without Borders,” and the 2nd Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. This piece is part of filmmaker Jesse Lerner’s curatorial project, “Cine Povera”, (READY) MEDIA: Hacia una Arqueología de los Medios y la Invención en México, of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), Mexico City. 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 A Closer Look at Mexican Experimental Cinema 04 · 28 · 15 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Pardo, Elena She studied communication at the Iberoamerican University (UIA), Mexico City, and specialized in contemporary art at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO) and at the La Curtiduría Contemporary Space for the Arts, Oaxaca. She received a scholarship from the Alfredo Harp Helú (FAHH) Foundation, Oaxaca, to attend the Clinics for Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca (CEACO). She also received a grant in 2013 for her project “Vistas oaxaqueñas” from the Program for the Artistic and Cultural Enrichment of Citizen Initiatives of the Secretary of Culture and the Arts of Oaxaca (SECULTA) and the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA), Mexico. She has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). At the 2nd FICM, she competed with her documentary feature El rey de los coleaderos (2004), co-directed with Héctor Hernández Gutiérrez, for which she won a grant from the Promotion Program and Cultural Co-Investments of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), Mexico, and the Emerging Directors Award at the 12th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. She won First Prize in the 3rd Experimental Video Competition, Baja California, Mexico, for her animated short film Juquilita (2004), which is part of the compilation of experimental cinema “Cine a contracorriente: Latinoamérica y España”, conducted by the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). She participated with her documentary short film Mi barrio (2009) in the 7th FICM, in the section “Cinema Without Borders,” and the 2nd Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico. This piece is part of filmmaker Jesse Lerner’s curatorial project, “Cine Povera”, (READY) MEDIA: Hacia una Arqueología de los Medios y la Invención en México, of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), Mexico City.
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
