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Roqué; María Inés

She studied communication at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) and cinematography at the CCC film school in Mexico City. Her work has been presented at more than 40 festivals around the world. She won the First Place Ex Aequo Award at the 2nd International Film School Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her first documentary feature Las compañeras tienen grado (1995), co-directed with Guadalupe Miranda, which also participated in the 20th Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York; the 6th Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, Israel; the 15th Women in The Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival, Chicago, among others. Her second feature-length documentary Papá Iván (2000) received three honorary mentions and three international awards, including the Coral award for Best Documentary at the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana, Cuba, and the Ariel for Best Documentary Short Film at the 45th Ariel Awards, Mexico. She presented this work at the symposium “Recordar el pasado e inventar el futuro”, in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University, California. She received the Audience Award for Best Mexican Feature Length Documentary at the 3rd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with Un día más (2004). Her documentary feature Cavallo entre rejas (2006), co-directed with Laura Imperiale and Shula Erenberg, won the Ex Aequo Award at the 6th Latin American Video and Audiovisual Arts Festival of Rosario, Argentina (FLVR) and a Jury Mention at the 5th Three Continents Documentary Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She worked as a screenwriter and editing advisor with the underwater photographer Manuel Lazcano, in the short films: ECO, Bajo la lente de Manuel Lazcano (2007), which won Third Place at the 4th Eastern Mediterranean International Underwater Photography and Film Festival, Northern Cyprus, and La expedición Ja’tay continúa (2009), which won a Special Jury Award at the 36th World Festival of Underwater Pictures, Marseille, France.

 

Other Movies

Naza

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

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

Zumbido
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

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