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Sosa Gil, Luis Armando

He studied Communication with a scholarship for academic excellence at the Iberoamerican University, he did a Diploma in Screenwriting with Patricio Saiz and another in Cinematographic Realization with Luis de Velasco at the University Center for Film Studies (CUEC-UNAM).

In 2012, the documentary Xapontic wins an economic fund in Dell Social Innovation Competition. He was the producer of the documentary Hotel 'La Loma' (2014), Official Selection of DocsDF. This same year he was awarded a scholarship by the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF) to attend the workshops for direction of actors, under the tutelage of Natalia Lazarus, and the screenplay workshop, with the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo Arriaga.

His screenplay, Tú, adentro, was Official Screenplay Selection of the Oaxaca Film Fest 2016 and his short film, El perro amarrado, was part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM.

In 2017, he made the short film Vapeur d'Orange, which received the Best Short Film award in the 48h Khronos contest of Kinoks Association and First Prize at the Concours du Film Court CROUS in France. This same year, he received the accreditation as a director to attend the Cannes Film Festival, he won the Youth Prize in the artistic and cultural field in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, and received an economic stimulus from the Secretary of Culture of the State of Michoacán for the postproduction of his short film El Viento y El Papalote, Official Selection of the 15th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM).

He currently works as a manager and artist in the group Foro Piezas, an area of creation and artistic development in the Lázaro Cárdenas region, Michoacán, in association with the ArcelorMittal Cultural Center.

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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