Image Vargas Torres, Cecilio He studied theater at the University of the Arts, Aguascalientes, Mexico. He won the Young Creators Scholarship of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) to make the digital 3D animated short film, El último canto, which is in the process of post-production. He is currently working in a theater-installation program called Residua 1.0, which consists of the handling of a puppet in the street. This project is being conducted at his animation and aesthetic arts studio El Bigote de Chaplin, founded in 2008. His animated short film Dame Posada (2011) has been shown at more than 50 festivals, film screenings and museums around the world, including the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the 39th SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival, Los Angeles; the Amon Carter Museum, Texas; the National Print Museum, Mexico City; and the museum Arts House Madrid, among others. This film received the award for Best Animated Project of the QUORUM 2012, Mexico City; Best Animation at the 7th Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM); Best Emerging Director at the 2nd MIA Animation Conference & Festival, Miami, United States; and a nomination for the Ariel award for Best Animated Short Film at the 55th Ariel Awards, Mexico. His short fiction film Bird song (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM. Other Movies If I Were Fire 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 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 40 + 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 Related News Les presentamos los cortometrajes de animación y documental del 14º FICM 09 · 21 · 16 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Vargas Torres, Cecilio He studied theater at the University of the Arts, Aguascalientes, Mexico. He won the Young Creators Scholarship of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) to make the digital 3D animated short film, El último canto, which is in the process of post-production. He is currently working in a theater-installation program called Residua 1.0, which consists of the handling of a puppet in the street. This project is being conducted at his animation and aesthetic arts studio El Bigote de Chaplin, founded in 2008. His animated short film Dame Posada (2011) has been shown at more than 50 festivals, film screenings and museums around the world, including the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the 39th SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival, Los Angeles; the Amon Carter Museum, Texas; the National Print Museum, Mexico City; and the museum Arts House Madrid, among others. This film received the award for Best Animated Project of the QUORUM 2012, Mexico City; Best Animation at the 7th Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM); Best Emerging Director at the 2nd MIA Animation Conference & Festival, Miami, United States; and a nomination for the Ariel award for Best Animated Short Film at the 55th Ariel Awards, Mexico. His short fiction film Bird song (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM.
If I Were Fire 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 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
40 + 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
