Image Zirión, Antonio He studied ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH, in Spanish), Mexico City, and received a master’s degree in visual anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology (GCVA) at the University of Manchester, England; and a master’s degree and a Ph.D in anthropological sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico City. His work has been shown at more than 40 film screenings and festivals around the world and has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He received a Special Mention at the 3rd FICM for his short documentary Últimas memorias vivas (2004). He competed in the same edition of FICM with his feature length documentary, Voces de la guerrero (2004), co-directed with Adrián Arce and Diego Rivera Kohn. It won the SIGNIS Award for Best Documentary, a Special Mention and the Sergei Eisenstein Award at the 3rd Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” Mexico, and the José Rovirosa Award of the UNAM Film Archives 2004. He participated in the 11th FICM with his short documentary, Fuera de foco (2013), also co-directed with Adrián Arce, which won the Best Documentary Award at the 5th Recife Ethnographic Film Festival (FFER, in Portuguese), Brazil. 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 MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN, a Documentary 10 · 23 · 25 The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Zirión, Antonio He studied ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH, in Spanish), Mexico City, and received a master’s degree in visual anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology (GCVA) at the University of Manchester, England; and a master’s degree and a Ph.D in anthropological sciences from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), Mexico City. His work has been shown at more than 40 film screenings and festivals around the world and has participated in two editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). He received a Special Mention at the 3rd FICM for his short documentary Últimas memorias vivas (2004). He competed in the same edition of FICM with his feature length documentary, Voces de la guerrero (2004), co-directed with Adrián Arce and Diego Rivera Kohn. It won the SIGNIS Award for Best Documentary, a Special Mention and the Sergei Eisenstein Award at the 3rd Independent Hispanic American Film and Video Festival, “All Voices Against the Silence,” Mexico, and the José Rovirosa Award of the UNAM Film Archives 2004. He participated in the 11th FICM with his short documentary, Fuera de foco (2013), also co-directed with Adrián Arce, which won the Best Documentary Award at the 5th Recife Ethnographic Film Festival (FFER, in Portuguese), Brazil.
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
MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN, a Documentary 10 · 23 · 25 The 23rd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 11 10 · 17 · 25 Eddie Muller Presents 99 RIVER STREET on the Closing Night of the 23rd FICM. 10 · 17 · 25 Academic Forum: Pioneering Mexican Female Screenwriters at the 23rd FICM 10 · 17 · 25
