Image Pimentel Melo, Jesús Mexican filmmaker who spends his time between New York City and the Tzintzuntzan community in Mexico. He holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and a Master's in Film with a specialization in directing and screenwriting by Columbia University in New York. Jesus' works have been exhibited at festivals around the world, such as the Miami International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival, the Morelia International Film Festival, the Seoul Chungmuro Festival and the Bolzano Festival, among others, as well as in the Short Film Corner and Cannes' Critics Week. In 2005, Jesus received the prestigious Fulbright-García Robles scholarship to study film at Columbia University in New York. That same year he received the Prize of the Audience in FICM 2005 with the short of fiction Un Bel Mori. In 2010, he was nominated for the Student Academy Awards-Oscars® for his short film Miramelinda and in 2011 he received the prestigious Diosa de Plata award for the best Mexican short film awarded by the Mexican Association of Film Journalists (PECIME). In 2012, Jesus was commissioned by the Government of the State of Michoacán to direct the conceptualization and development of a project to create the Film Commission of Michoacán (COFILMICH). In 2015, he won the National Contest of Fiction Feature Projects, convened by the Audiovisual Directorate, Phonography and New Media in Peru, with the project Canción sin nombre. Jesús has participated as a project consultant and jury member of the Independent Film Week in New York, the Independent Film Project (IFP), the Fund for the Development of Cinematography, FDC de Proimgos Colombia, the Los Cabos International Film Festival, the Festival MicGénero in Mexico City and BAM, Bogota Audivisual Market, among others. He has been an executive producer on several film co-productions between the United States, Peru, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Mexico and has worked as a script consultant in the development of several feature films in Spain and the United States. He is co-founder and director of Qua Non Lab, a non-profit organization for filmmakers based in Michoacán, Mexico, whose objective is to provide an environment where filmmakers can develop their creative process, exchange ideas and establish new avenues for collaboration. It also supports independent filmmakers and emerging filmmakers by offering screenwriting workshops for screenwriters. 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 MUÑECOS INFERNALES: A Restored Classic at the 23rd FICM 10 · 16 · 25 LA VIRGEN DE LA TOSQUERA Enchanted Audiences at the 23rd FICM 10 · 15 · 25 “Where and Who We Are Changes as Life Shapes Us With Blows and God Dictates the Form”: Guillermo del Toro's Message Ahead of FRANKENSTEIN'S Premiere at the 23rd FICM 10 · 15 · 25 Technique May Change, But Not Ethics: Javier Espada Presents Memoria de Los Olvidados at the 23rd FICM 10 · 15 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Pimentel Melo, Jesús Mexican filmmaker who spends his time between New York City and the Tzintzuntzan community in Mexico. He holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and a Master's in Film with a specialization in directing and screenwriting by Columbia University in New York. Jesus' works have been exhibited at festivals around the world, such as the Miami International Film Festival, the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival, the Morelia International Film Festival, the Seoul Chungmuro Festival and the Bolzano Festival, among others, as well as in the Short Film Corner and Cannes' Critics Week. In 2005, Jesus received the prestigious Fulbright-García Robles scholarship to study film at Columbia University in New York. That same year he received the Prize of the Audience in FICM 2005 with the short of fiction Un Bel Mori. In 2010, he was nominated for the Student Academy Awards-Oscars® for his short film Miramelinda and in 2011 he received the prestigious Diosa de Plata award for the best Mexican short film awarded by the Mexican Association of Film Journalists (PECIME). In 2012, Jesus was commissioned by the Government of the State of Michoacán to direct the conceptualization and development of a project to create the Film Commission of Michoacán (COFILMICH). In 2015, he won the National Contest of Fiction Feature Projects, convened by the Audiovisual Directorate, Phonography and New Media in Peru, with the project Canción sin nombre. Jesús has participated as a project consultant and jury member of the Independent Film Week in New York, the Independent Film Project (IFP), the Fund for the Development of Cinematography, FDC de Proimgos Colombia, the Los Cabos International Film Festival, the Festival MicGénero in Mexico City and BAM, Bogota Audivisual Market, among others. He has been an executive producer on several film co-productions between the United States, Peru, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Mexico and has worked as a script consultant in the development of several feature films in Spain and the United States. He is co-founder and director of Qua Non Lab, a non-profit organization for filmmakers based in Michoacán, Mexico, whose objective is to provide an environment where filmmakers can develop their creative process, exchange ideas and establish new avenues for collaboration. It also supports independent filmmakers and emerging filmmakers by offering screenwriting workshops for screenwriters.
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
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“Where and Who We Are Changes as Life Shapes Us With Blows and God Dictates the Form”: Guillermo del Toro's Message Ahead of FRANKENSTEIN'S Premiere at the 23rd FICM 10 · 15 · 25
Technique May Change, But Not Ethics: Javier Espada Presents Memoria de Los Olvidados at the 23rd FICM 10 · 15 · 25
