Cuesta; Raúl

He studied international business at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores (ITESM), received a master’s degree in computer systems from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and took a course in narrative photography by the Pedro Meyer Foundation and the World Press Photo organization. He has worked in several television shows, music videos and documentaries. He produced and photographed David ou le retour à la terre (2013) by Anaïs Huerta, and he has participated in the making of several Mexican feature films. He competed in the 4th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) with his short fiction film Máximo (2006). His first feature Rehje (2009), co-directed with Anaïs Huerta, won a Special Mention for a Documentary Made by a Woman at the 6th FICM; as well as the award for Best Documentary at the 2nd International Film Festival on Human Rights in Mexico (DHFEST); the award for Best Documentary at the 6th Independent Documentary Film and Video Latin American Meeting: All Voices Against Silence, Mexico; the Young Hope Award at the 20th Présensce Autochtone Festival in Montreal, Canada; the Jury Prize at the 5th Indigene International Film Festival in Katmandú, Nepal; the Grand Prix at the 5th Documentary Festival, L’Amérique Latine en Documentaries in Lyon, France; and a nomination for an Ariel for Best Documentary at the 52nd Ariel Awards, Mexico. He received various grants for the creation of his second feature length documentary, Los días no vuelven (2015): from the Fund for Quality Film Production (FOPROCINE, in Spanish) and the Promotion Program and Cultural Co-Investments of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA), in 2011, as well as the Media Arts Fund Grant, in 2013, from the Tribeca Film Institute, United States, among others. He was selected to participate with this feature project in the Coproduction Forum at the 1st Riviera Maya Film Festival (RMFF), Mexico. Los días no vuelven participated in the 4th RMFF; the 11th Monterrey International Film Festival, México; and was part of the Official Selection of the 13th FICM. He is in the process of making his third feature film Los días por venir, selected for the Documentary Pitching of the 7th DocMontevideo, Uruguay.

Otras Películas

¡Aoquic iez in Mexico! ¡Ya México no existirá más!

Una mirada frenética recorre la convulsa Ciudad de México, metrópolis colosal sostenida por el mito del mestizaje y otras violencias coloniales. Pasado y presente tejen una ráfaga de imágenes; memorias fragmentadas de este territorio. Deidades antiguas que se encarnan, sueños que se desdoblan entre la intimidad, la complicidad y el tumulto. Una película errática que nos invita a reimaginar la compleja relación que sostenemos con la “mexicanidad”.

Ziuta travesías

Ziuta, polaca, judía y superviviente de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, era una mujer extraordinaria que despertaba especial devoción por su compromiso político y su participación en el apoyo a la lucha clandestina. Ziuta tuvo la determinación, siendo una adolescente, de resistir el exilio con entereza, salvando a su madre y a otra familia de perecer en la huida. A pesar de los horrores y las penurias, mantuvo una actitud agradecida ante la vida.

Zinzindurrunkarratz

Oskar Alegría emprende un viaje para recuperar el pasado. Con una cámara Super-8 que perteneció a su padre y que ha permanecido sin usar durante 41 años, planea seguir el camino del pastor —el viaje de trashumancia que su abuelo realizó en su juventud y cuyas coordenadas exactas nadie recuerda hoy en día.