Colunga Gascón, Jimena

She studied communication and media at the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN, in Spanish), Mexico, in addition to photography, staging and directing workshops at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV, in Spanish) of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. In 2008, she won the Nayarit State Youth Award in the area of Artistic Activities and received a grant from the Nayarit State Council for Culture and the Arts to develop the project Vampiro que se mueve, imágenes que hablan. She also received grants from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt, in Spanish), Mexico, in the Artistic Foreign Residency program in 2010, to develop Cuéntame un cuento… Eliseo. She participated with her short fiction film La fruición (2010) in the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the Fantastic and Horror Film Festival at the 33rd International Festival of New Latin American Film in Havana; and the 6thMonterrey International Film Festival. She participated in the 2nd Ibero-American Festival of Short Films ABC (FIBABC), Spain, and the 19th Cinesul, the Iberoamerican Festival of Film and Video, Río de Janeiro, with her short documentary film Este cuerpo mío (2012). She is currently in post-production on her feature-length documentary on the work of director Eliseo Subiela entitled Subiela, el mago.