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Ríos, Alejandro

He studied animation and digital art at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Mexico City campus. His short film Érase una vez (2011) won the award for Best Animated Short Film at the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and at the 1st Costa Rica International Film Festival Paz con la Tierra. He won an Honorable Mention at the 4th Animasivo, Contemporary Animation Forum for Hubiera (2010). His most recent work Los gatos (2016), Official Selection of the 14th FICM, won the Rigo Mora Award for Best Animated Short Film at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), Best Mexican Short Film at the Durango Festival of Mexican Cinema and the Palmita Award granted by the French Cinema Tour in Mexico. He is the co-founder of the creative studio Muv, a project that experiments with new formats such as virtual reality in Mexico City.

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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