Image Roqué; María Inés She studied communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and cinematography at the CCC film school in Mexico City. Her work has been presented at more than 40 festivals around the world. She won the First Place Ex Aequo Award at the 2nd International Film School Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her first documentary feature Las compañeras tienen grado (1995), co-directed with Guadalupe Miranda, which also participated in the 20th Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York; the 6th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel; the 15th Women in The Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival, Chicago, among others. Her second feature-length documentary Papá Iván (2000) received three honorary mentions and three international awards, including the Coral award for Best Documentary at the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba, and the Ariel for Best Documentary Short Film at the 45th Ariel Awards, Mexico. She presented this work at the symposium “Recordar el pasado e inventar el futuro”, in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University, California. She received the Audience Award for Best Mexican Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with Un día más (2004). Her documentary feature Cavallo entre rejas (2006), co-directed with Laura Imperiale and Shula Erenberg, won the Ex Aequo Award at the 6th Latin American Video and Audiovisual Arts Festival of Rosario, Argentina (FLVR) and a Jury Mention at the 5th Three Continents Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She worked as a screenwriter and editing advisor with the underwater photographer Manuel Lazcano, in the short films: ECO, Bajo la lente de Manuel Lazcano (2007), which won Third Place at the 4th Eastern Mediterranean International Underwater Photography and Film Festival, Northern Cyprus, and La expedición Ja’tay continúa (2009), which won a Special Jury Award at the 36th World Festival of Underwater Pictures, Marseille, France. 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 Nuria Ibáñez on EL GUARDIÁN and How Cinema Helps Us Think About What’s Foreign to Us at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 “The Process is the Only Part of Cinema That's Ours”: Elisa Miller Presents BITÁCORA DE DIRECCIÓN DE TEMPORADA DE HURACANES 10 · 13 · 25 Activities for Impulso Morelia 11 Begin at the 23th FICM 10 · 13 · 25 64th Critics' Week: Ava Cahen Presented Shih-Ching Tsou's LEFT-HANDED GIRL 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 Roqué; María Inés She studied communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and cinematography at the CCC film school in Mexico City. Her work has been presented at more than 40 festivals around the world. She won the First Place Ex Aequo Award at the 2nd International Film School Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her first documentary feature Las compañeras tienen grado (1995), co-directed with Guadalupe Miranda, which also participated in the 20th Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York; the 6th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel; the 15th Women in The Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival, Chicago, among others. Her second feature-length documentary Papá Iván (2000) received three honorary mentions and three international awards, including the Coral award for Best Documentary at the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba, and the Ariel for Best Documentary Short Film at the 45th Ariel Awards, Mexico. She presented this work at the symposium “Recordar el pasado e inventar el futuro”, in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University, California. She received the Audience Award for Best Mexican Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with Un día más (2004). Her documentary feature Cavallo entre rejas (2006), co-directed with Laura Imperiale and Shula Erenberg, won the Ex Aequo Award at the 6th Latin American Video and Audiovisual Arts Festival of Rosario, Argentina (FLVR) and a Jury Mention at the 5th Three Continents Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She worked as a screenwriter and editing advisor with the underwater photographer Manuel Lazcano, in the short films: ECO, Bajo la lente de Manuel Lazcano (2007), which won Third Place at the 4th Eastern Mediterranean International Underwater Photography and Film Festival, Northern Cyprus, and La expedición Ja’tay continúa (2009), which won a Special Jury Award at the 36th World Festival of Underwater Pictures, Marseille, France.
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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Nuria Ibáñez on EL GUARDIÁN and How Cinema Helps Us Think About What’s Foreign to Us at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
“The Process is the Only Part of Cinema That's Ours”: Elisa Miller Presents BITÁCORA DE DIRECCIÓN DE TEMPORADA DE HURACANES 10 · 13 · 25
64th Critics' Week: Ava Cahen Presented Shih-Ching Tsou's LEFT-HANDED GIRL at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
