Image Soler Guitián, Mara She studied design at the Design School of the National Institute of Fine Arts (EDINBA), Mexico City. She is the founder of the animation and audiovisual arts studio Viumasters, where she developed her career as a designer and animator for five years. She is the founding partner of the animation duet, Flaminguettes, together with Daniela Villanueva, where she currently works. She is also a professor of animation at the SAE Institute México and the CENTRO Design, Film and Television School in Mexico City. She has participated in various festivals around the world. Her animated short film Xochimilco 1914 (2010), made at the Viumasters studio, participated, among other festivals, in the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), in the program “Canal 22 Presents…”; the 13th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF); the 2nd CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro; and the 56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. She won for her short film, Etéreas (2013), made by the Flaminguettes duet, the award for Best Animated Graphics at the 2014 edition of the Cannes in a Van Festival, London; the Third National Prize at the 6th Agite y Sirva, Traveling Video Dance Festival, Mexico; and a PEARL prize at the POOL 13 - Internationale TanzFilmPlattform Berlín, Germany. This work is also part of the first Best of Art Set Free digital art installation for the 25th anniversary celebration of Arts Brookfield, New York, and the Top Ten of the 3rd Cinema Perpetuum Mobile International Short Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus, among others. Her animated short film, El Don de los espejos (2013), is part of the Official Selection of the 12th FICM, and has also participated in the 25th Kinoforum São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil; in the 16th Future Film Festival, International Festival of Cinema Animation and New Technologies, Bologna, Italy; and the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), among others. For this work she won the award for Best Animated Short Film at the 9th Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM). 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 Soler Guitián, Mara She studied design at the Design School of the National Institute of Fine Arts (EDINBA), Mexico City. She is the founder of the animation and audiovisual arts studio Viumasters, where she developed her career as a designer and animator for five years. She is the founding partner of the animation duet, Flaminguettes, together with Daniela Villanueva, where she currently works. She is also a professor of animation at the SAE Institute México and the CENTRO Design, Film and Television School in Mexico City. She has participated in various festivals around the world. Her animated short film Xochimilco 1914 (2010), made at the Viumasters studio, participated, among other festivals, in the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), in the program “Canal 22 Presents…”; the 13th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF); the 2nd CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro; and the 56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. She won for her short film, Etéreas (2013), made by the Flaminguettes duet, the award for Best Animated Graphics at the 2014 edition of the Cannes in a Van Festival, London; the Third National Prize at the 6th Agite y Sirva, Traveling Video Dance Festival, Mexico; and a PEARL prize at the POOL 13 - Internationale TanzFilmPlattform Berlín, Germany. This work is also part of the first Best of Art Set Free digital art installation for the 25th anniversary celebration of Arts Brookfield, New York, and the Top Ten of the 3rd Cinema Perpetuum Mobile International Short Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus, among others. Her animated short film, El Don de los espejos (2013), is part of the Official Selection of the 12th FICM, and has also participated in the 25th Kinoforum São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil; in the 16th Future Film Festival, International Festival of Cinema Animation and New Technologies, Bologna, Italy; and the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), among others. For this work she won the award for Best Animated Short Film at the 9th Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM).
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
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
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
