Image Sánchez Velasco, Javier He studied advertising at the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), Mexico. He received, among other grants, the Bicentennial of the Independence and Centenary of the Mexican Revolutionary Commission Grant for the Documentary Video Workshop in the Central del Pueblo, Mexico City, during the period 2009-2010, as well as an artist residency in New York from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt). He participated in the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his documentary short film Vagonero (2010), which won three honorary mentions: at the 6th Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” Mexico, in the category of Daily Life and Social Change; in the 1st International Documentary Film Festival DOCSTOWN, Mexico; and in the 1st Lakino – Latin American Film Festival Berlin, Germany. Other Movies Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More Related News The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Sánchez Velasco, Javier He studied advertising at the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), Mexico. He received, among other grants, the Bicentennial of the Independence and Centenary of the Mexican Revolutionary Commission Grant for the Documentary Video Workshop in the Central del Pueblo, Mexico City, during the period 2009-2010, as well as an artist residency in New York from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt). He participated in the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his documentary short film Vagonero (2010), which won three honorary mentions: at the 6th Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” Mexico, in the category of Daily Life and Social Change; in the 1st International Documentary Film Festival DOCSTOWN, Mexico; and in the 1st Lakino – Latin American Film Festival Berlin, Germany.
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Sujo When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his beloved 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life in the isolated Mexican countryside. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father’s destiny may be inescapable. See More
Mexico will no longer exist! A frenetic view runs over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of "mestizaje" and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present weave a flurry of images; fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap among intimacy, complicity and the tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine the complex relationship we have with the constructed “mexicanidad.” See More
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Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
