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Portillo Padua, Otilia

She received a Master of Arts in Architecture from Cambridge University and took a course at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London. She received the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) in 2010 and was part of Berlinale Talents 2011. She won the Docs in Progress Churubusco award at the 6thInternational Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF, in Spanish) for her feature-length documentary project Diario a tres voces (2012). The film was later presented at more than 20 festivals around the world, including the 10th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), the 7th DocsDF and the 8th Ambulante Documentary Tour, Mexico.

Other Movies

If I Were Fire

Si yo fuese fuego
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

Vidas en la orilla
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

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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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