Image Rochín, Roberto He studied art at the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, United States. His first feature Ulama, el juego de la vida y la muerte (1987), won Ariel Awards for Best First Film, Best Picture, Best Music, Best Edition and Best Photography at the 30th Ariel Awards, Mexico; and the Silver Goddess for Best First Film at the 24th Silver Goddess Awards Ceremony, Mexico. The film was presented at the 1st Universal Expo 2000 fair, Hannover, Germany and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2003, among others. He won the Best Fiction Short Film award at the 29th WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival, Texas, for Un pedazo de noche (1995). For Paso del Norte (2001) he won an Ariel for Best Short Fiction Film at the 44th Ariel Awards and three awards at the 5th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF). He participated in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his feature Purgatorio, relatos de Juan Rulfo (2008), which won the Jury Award at the 36th Brussels Independent Film Festival, Belgium (FIFI in French); the Free Spirit Award at the 25th Warsaw Film Festival (WFF), Poland; and the Pre-Colombian Silver Circle Award for Best Picture at the 26th Bogotá Film Festival (Bogocine), Colombia. 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 We Have a Responsibility to Future Generations: LOS AMANTES SE DESPIDEN CON LA MIRADA Press Conference 10 · 13 · 25 Lucrecia Martel and the New Ways of Telling Everyday Stories 10 · 13 · 25 “If I Can Only Make One Film in My Life, It Has to Be This One”: Joseph Todd Walker Presented LA GLORIA at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 The Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Rochín, Roberto He studied art at the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, United States. His first feature Ulama, el juego de la vida y la muerte (1987), won Ariel Awards for Best First Film, Best Picture, Best Music, Best Edition and Best Photography at the 30th Ariel Awards, Mexico; and the Silver Goddess for Best First Film at the 24th Silver Goddess Awards Ceremony, Mexico. The film was presented at the 1st Universal Expo 2000 fair, Hannover, Germany and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2003, among others. He won the Best Fiction Short Film award at the 29th WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival, Texas, for Un pedazo de noche (1995). For Paso del Norte (2001) he won an Ariel for Best Short Fiction Film at the 44th Ariel Awards and three awards at the 5th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF). He participated in the 6th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his feature Purgatorio, relatos de Juan Rulfo (2008), which won the Jury Award at the 36th Brussels Independent Film Festival, Belgium (FIFI in French); the Free Spirit Award at the 25th Warsaw Film Festival (WFF), Poland; and the Pre-Colombian Silver Circle Award for Best Picture at the 26th Bogotá Film Festival (Bogocine), Colombia.
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
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We Have a Responsibility to Future Generations: LOS AMANTES SE DESPIDEN CON LA MIRADA Press Conference 10 · 13 · 25
“If I Can Only Make One Film in My Life, It Has to Be This One”: Joseph Todd Walker Presented LA GLORIA at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
The Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
