Image 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 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 ¡Conoce a la Sección Michoacana del 14º FICM! 09 · 19 · 16 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image 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.
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
