Image Castañeda Ortega; Karla Animation, Direction Karla Castañeda Ortega is a Mexican filmmaker, film director, and animator specialized in stop motion. She majored in Painting and Illustration at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra, Spain, and later she majored in Communication Sciences at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education [ITESO, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente].In 2007, she directed her debut short film Jacinta, which won the Ariel Award for Best Animated Short Film and the Ojo for Best Mexican Animated Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival. Additionally, the short film was shortlisted for the Academy Awards (Oscars) and screened at Cannes Critics’ Week.A few years later, she directed the stop-motion animated short film La noria [The Waterwheel], which earned her a second Ariel Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2013, along with distinctions at the Guanajuato International Film Festival, the Guadalajara International Film Festival, and the Biarritz Latin American Film Festival in France. Other Movies Naza Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. See More 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa Esperanza is a young novice living in a quiet convent full of old nuns. After eating some “special” mushrooms, innocent Esperanza becomes modern and psychedelic Brenda: a subversive girl who raids a high-society party, sings subversive songs and charms young fellows. See More The Buzz During a live national television interview, Verónica, a famous and widely admired actress, struggles to uphold the image of a perfect life as her inner world fractures under the weight of private abuse. Trapped between silence, fear, and a sudden panic attack, she must decide whether to continue performing the illusion—or break the cycle in front of everyone. See More Related News The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26 Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Castañeda Ortega; Karla Animation, Direction Karla Castañeda Ortega is a Mexican filmmaker, film director, and animator specialized in stop motion. She majored in Painting and Illustration at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra, Spain, and later she majored in Communication Sciences at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education [ITESO, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente].In 2007, she directed her debut short film Jacinta, which won the Ariel Award for Best Animated Short Film and the Ojo for Best Mexican Animated Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival. Additionally, the short film was shortlisted for the Academy Awards (Oscars) and screened at Cannes Critics’ Week.A few years later, she directed the stop-motion animated short film La noria [The Waterwheel], which earned her a second Ariel Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2013, along with distinctions at the Guanajuato International Film Festival, the Guadalajara International Film Festival, and the Biarritz Latin American Film Festival in France.
Naza Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. See More
5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa Esperanza is a young novice living in a quiet convent full of old nuns. After eating some “special” mushrooms, innocent Esperanza becomes modern and psychedelic Brenda: a subversive girl who raids a high-society party, sings subversive songs and charms young fellows. See More
The Buzz During a live national television interview, Verónica, a famous and widely admired actress, struggles to uphold the image of a perfect life as her inner world fractures under the weight of private abuse. Trapped between silence, fear, and a sudden panic attack, she must decide whether to continue performing the illusion—or break the cycle in front of everyone. See More
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26 Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26
