Image Ojeda; Nayelli Animation, Direction, Production Nayelli Ojeda is a Mexican film director, producer, and animator specialized in stop motion. She holds a Master’s degree in Animation and Digital Art from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education [ITESM, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey]. In 2016, she founded Wisdom House Films, a studio where she has had the opportunity to develop animation projects. Her short film Yugen is the result of eight years of relentless development and production, combining stop motion with ceramics and natural materials such as Oaxacan clay, fibers, corn husks, cactus, ixtle, and wood. This project received the Animation Short Film Production Support from the Mexican Film Institute [IMCINE, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía] and, in 2021, was selected as a global finalist at the ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum in Poland.In addition to this, Yugen won the Best Animated Short Award at the 2026 Manchester Film Festival—a British Academy Film Awards-qualifying festival. Later, it took part in the Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The short film has also been featured in other international film festival circuits and, in 2026, became part of the Official Selection of the 24th Morelia International Film Festival, competing in the Mexican Animated Short Film category.Her professional career is distinguished by the integration of artisanal techniques and contemporary animation languages in order to create stories rooted in Mexican and Latin American culture. 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 Ojeda; Nayelli Animation, Direction, Production Nayelli Ojeda is a Mexican film director, producer, and animator specialized in stop motion. She holds a Master’s degree in Animation and Digital Art from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education [ITESM, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey]. In 2016, she founded Wisdom House Films, a studio where she has had the opportunity to develop animation projects. Her short film Yugen is the result of eight years of relentless development and production, combining stop motion with ceramics and natural materials such as Oaxacan clay, fibers, corn husks, cactus, ixtle, and wood. This project received the Animation Short Film Production Support from the Mexican Film Institute [IMCINE, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía] and, in 2021, was selected as a global finalist at the ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum in Poland.In addition to this, Yugen won the Best Animated Short Award at the 2026 Manchester Film Festival—a British Academy Film Awards-qualifying festival. Later, it took part in the Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry during the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The short film has also been featured in other international film festival circuits and, in 2026, became part of the Official Selection of the 24th Morelia International Film Festival, competing in the Mexican Animated Short Film category.Her professional career is distinguished by the integration of artisanal techniques and contemporary animation languages in order to create stories rooted in Mexican and Latin American culture.
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
