Image Viveros, Mario He studied journalism and collective communication at the School of Higher Studies Acatlán (FES Acatlán) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and cinematography at the CUEC-UNAM film school, Mexico City. He is currently studying for a master’s degree in documentary film at the School of Art and Design (FAD-UNAM) and the CUEC-UNAM. He also works as a researcher, filmmaker, cinematographer and editor at the collective Canal Seis de Julio; as an academic adviser at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), where he is developing the audiovisual laboratory project at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHyCS); and as a professor of documentary film at the Mexican Association of Independent Filmmakers (AMCI), in Mexico City. Within his academic research work, among other activities, he published the article “Zerkalo: El espejo de Tarkovsky, análisis de realización,” in the magazine Estudios Cinematográficos, number 23, of the CUEC-UNAM, 2004, and the chapter “La enseñanza del Documental, otra forma de resistencia,” in the book Poetics of Resistance and Emancipation Cultural and Poetic Practices, soon to be released. He has worked on more than 60 documentaries and short fiction films, and has participated in numerous festivals around the world, including the 1st Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), with his short fiction film En los cuernos de la Luna (2002). He received, among other prizes, the awards for Best Documentary and Best Edition at the 8th Silver Screen Festival, Mexico City, for his feature length documentary Halcones: Terrorismo de Estado (2006). 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 We Have a Responsibility to Future Generations: LOS AMANTES SE DESPIDEN CON LA MIRADA Press Conference 10 · 13 · 25 Lucrecia Martel and the New Ways of Telling Everyday Stories 10 · 13 · 25 “If I Can Only Make One Film in My Life, It Has to Be This One”: Joseph Todd Walker Presented LA GLORIA at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 The Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Viveros, Mario He studied journalism and collective communication at the School of Higher Studies Acatlán (FES Acatlán) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and cinematography at the CUEC-UNAM film school, Mexico City. He is currently studying for a master’s degree in documentary film at the School of Art and Design (FAD-UNAM) and the CUEC-UNAM. He also works as a researcher, filmmaker, cinematographer and editor at the collective Canal Seis de Julio; as an academic adviser at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), where he is developing the audiovisual laboratory project at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHyCS); and as a professor of documentary film at the Mexican Association of Independent Filmmakers (AMCI), in Mexico City. Within his academic research work, among other activities, he published the article “Zerkalo: El espejo de Tarkovsky, análisis de realización,” in the magazine Estudios Cinematográficos, number 23, of the CUEC-UNAM, 2004, and the chapter “La enseñanza del Documental, otra forma de resistencia,” in the book Poetics of Resistance and Emancipation Cultural and Poetic Practices, soon to be released. He has worked on more than 60 documentaries and short fiction films, and has participated in numerous festivals around the world, including the 1st Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), with his short fiction film En los cuernos de la Luna (2002). He received, among other prizes, the awards for Best Documentary and Best Edition at the 8th Silver Screen Festival, Mexico City, for his feature length documentary Halcones: Terrorismo de Estado (2006).
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
We Have a Responsibility to Future Generations: LOS AMANTES SE DESPIDEN CON LA MIRADA Press Conference 10 · 13 · 25 Lucrecia Martel and the New Ways of Telling Everyday Stories 10 · 13 · 25 “If I Can Only Make One Film in My Life, It Has to Be This One”: Joseph Todd Walker Presented LA GLORIA at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25 The Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
We Have a Responsibility to Future Generations: LOS AMANTES SE DESPIDEN CON LA MIRADA Press Conference 10 · 13 · 25
“If I Can Only Make One Film in My Life, It Has to Be This One”: Joseph Todd Walker Presented LA GLORIA at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
The Third Issue of FÓSFORO UNAM DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF FILM CRITICS Was Presented at the 23rd FICM 10 · 13 · 25
