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Quintero, Denisse

She took a course in screenwriting at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), in Mexico City. Because of her feature film screenplay Crucecitas, in 2011 she received a scholarship from the Carolina Foundation for the Quality Film Project Development Workshop and for the International Screenwriting Workshop at the Ibermedia Bolivia Lab. In 2013 she received the Young Creators Scholarship from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) for her documentary Lengua muerta, currently in post-production. That same year she participated in the Talent Campus of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG). Her short film Carreteras (2013), winner of the 4th Mexico: Sexual Diversity in Film and Video Festival, received the Sexual Diversity Award at the International Short Film Festival FENACO Perú. Lengua muerta was also selected at the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (The Roze Filmdagen) in Amsterdam, Netherlands; at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana, Cuba; and at the Huelva Latin American Film Festival, Spain, among others. That same year, her documentary El secreto ajeno, won the production award granted by the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI). Thanks to the Ibermedia scholarship for the feature film screenplay Al estilo Jalisco, she participated in the Cinefilia Screenwriting Lab in Colombia. Her short film, El tigre y la flor, winner of the second contest for production support organized by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), was part of the Official Selection of the 14th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). She is currently working on the documentary Esto no es un elefante and gathering funds for her first fiction feature film.

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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