Image García; Dano Direction, Edition, Script, Production Dano García is a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker. They studied at the National Film and Television School in London and at the National School of Cinematic Arts [ENAC, by its acronym in Spanish, Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas]. In 2016, they directed Unsilenced, a New York Times Op-Doc about a Mexican activist who was murdered live on air while hosting a radio program for displaced people.Their first feature-length documentary, Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015), won the Global Audience Award at SXSW, the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, the Golden Eye for Best International Documentary at the Zurich Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Morelia International Film Festival, the International Jury Prize at This Human World, and the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma-Ambulante Grant. The film screened at Sheffield DocFest and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. It was also nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film at the 2016 Cinema Eye Honors and won Best Documentary Director at the 2016 Cinema Tropical Awards. It was included in Sight & Sound magazine’s list of the Best Films of the Year.Their short film Porcelana (2013) won the Best Short Film Award at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (2013) and the Best Film Award at AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts in Toronto, Canada (2015). Their short film The Girl with Two Heads won the Orona Award for Best Short Film at the San Sebastián Film Festival (2018) and the Best Short Film Award at the Morelia International Film Festival, in addition to screening as part of the Cannes Critics’ Week.More recently, their second documentary, Mickey, won the Global Audience Award at SXSW 2026. 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 García; Dano Direction, Edition, Script, Production Dano García is a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker. They studied at the National Film and Television School in London and at the National School of Cinematic Arts [ENAC, by its acronym in Spanish, Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas]. In 2016, they directed Unsilenced, a New York Times Op-Doc about a Mexican activist who was murdered live on air while hosting a radio program for displaced people.Their first feature-length documentary, Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015), won the Global Audience Award at SXSW, the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, the Golden Eye for Best International Documentary at the Zurich Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Morelia International Film Festival, the International Jury Prize at This Human World, and the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma-Ambulante Grant. The film screened at Sheffield DocFest and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight. It was also nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film at the 2016 Cinema Eye Honors and won Best Documentary Director at the 2016 Cinema Tropical Awards. It was included in Sight & Sound magazine’s list of the Best Films of the Year.Their short film Porcelana (2013) won the Best Short Film Award at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (2013) and the Best Film Award at AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts in Toronto, Canada (2015). Their short film The Girl with Two Heads won the Orona Award for Best Short Film at the San Sebastián Film Festival (2018) and the Best Short Film Award at the Morelia International Film Festival, in addition to screening as part of the Cannes Critics’ Week.More recently, their second documentary, Mickey, won the Global Audience Award at SXSW 2026.
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
