Image Retes, Gabriela She took courses in architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received her degree in education from the Public Education Secretariat (SEP), Mexico. She has worked in film projects from an early age, as editor, producer, actress and director. She co-wrote the screenplays for her father Gabriel Retes’ feature films, El bulto (1992), in which she was also an actress, and Bienvenido-Welcome (1994), both winners of numerous awards around the world. The first film received the Best Picture Award at the 18th Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain, and the 4th Puerto Rico Cinemafest, among others. As a screenwriter, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Bienvenido-Welcome; which she won the Silver Goddess Award for Best Screenplay at the 23rd Silver Goddess Awards, Mexico. This film also received the Second Coral Award at the 16th International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba, and the Grand Prize at the 14th Amiens International Film Festival, France. She participated as director in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with La luz de la oscuridad (2007), which won a Special Mention for Short Fiction Film. 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 The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25 When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Retes, Gabriela She took courses in architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received her degree in education from the Public Education Secretariat (SEP), Mexico. She has worked in film projects from an early age, as editor, producer, actress and director. She co-wrote the screenplays for her father Gabriel Retes’ feature films, El bulto (1992), in which she was also an actress, and Bienvenido-Welcome (1994), both winners of numerous awards around the world. The first film received the Best Picture Award at the 18th Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva, Spain, and the 4th Puerto Rico Cinemafest, among others. As a screenwriter, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Bienvenido-Welcome; which she won the Silver Goddess Award for Best Screenplay at the 23rd Silver Goddess Awards, Mexico. This film also received the Second Coral Award at the 16th International Festival of New Latin American Film, Havana, Cuba, and the Grand Prize at the 14th Amiens International Film Festival, France. She participated as director in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with La luz de la oscuridad (2007), which won a Special Mention for Short Fiction Film.
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
The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25 When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25
When You're An Actor, No One Can Stop You From Doing It: Stellan Skarsgård at the Presentation of Sentimental Value 10 · 17 · 25
