Image 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 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 ¡Conozcan los cortometrajes de ficción del 14º FICM! 09 · 21 · 16 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image 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.
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
