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Rojas, Isabel

She studied audiovisual art at the Audiovisual Art Center (CAAV), Guadalajara, and cultural management and sustainable development at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca (UABJO, in Spanish). She is the director of the OaxacaCine Alcalá, a civil association dedicated to screening, distributing, creating and preserving film and audiovisual works in Oaxaca, Mexico. She participated in the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with her short experimental film Ensalada de Nopal (2003), also screened at the Guggenheim Museum of New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá, in 2004, among others, and won the award for Best Experimental Work at the 5th Geografías Suaves Festival in Mérida, Mexico.

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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