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Santoyo del Castillo; Gildardo

He studied graphic communication design at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Xochimilco campus, Mexico, and a course on creativity at the School of Design at the National Institute of Bellas Artes (INBA), Mexico. He has been recognized at the international level as an illustrator and art and animation director in several audiovisuals, commercials, documentaries and broadcasts for production companies and television channels. His first animated short film Olas del cielo (2015) was the winner of the 13th National Competition for Animated Short Film Projects launched by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) and was presented at various national and international film festivals, including the 30th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG, in Spanish), Mexico; the 18th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF), Mexico; the 45th Giffoni Film Festival, Italy; and the 11th Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico. Olas del cielo will be presented at the 59th BFI London Film Festival, Great Britain; the 31st Warsaw Film Festival (WFF), Poland; the 30th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina; the 17th FILMAR Latin American Film Festival, Switzerland; and was part of the Official Selection of the 13th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).

Other Movies

The Conformist

El Conformista
In Fascist Italy in 1938, Marcello Clerici is eager to be accepted into the social circles of the regime, which he admires. His opportunity arises when he is ordered to track down, in Paris, a former professor of his—now an opponent of Mussolini—and assassinate him. See More

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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