Soler Guitián, Mara

She studied design at the Design School of the National Institute of Fine Arts (EDINBA), Mexico City. She is the founder of the animation and audiovisual arts studio Viumasters, where she developed her career as a designer and animator for five years. She is the founding partner of the animation duet, Flaminguettes, together with Daniela Villanueva, where she currently works. She is also a professor of animation at the SAE Institute México and the CENTRO Design, Film and Television School in Mexico City. She has participated in various festivals around the world. Her animated short film Xochimilco 1914 (2010), made at the Viumasters studio, participated, among other festivals, in the 8th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), in the program “Canal 22 Presents…”; the 13th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF); the 2nd CutOut Fest International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Querétaro; and the 56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. She won for her short film, Etéreas (2013), made by the Flaminguettes duet, the award for Best Animated Graphics at the 2014 edition of the Cannes in a Van Festival, London; the Third National Prize at the 6th Agite y Sirva, Traveling Video Dance Festival, Mexico; and a PEARL prize at the POOL 13 - Internationale TanzFilmPlattform Berlín, Germany. This work is also part of the first Best of Art Set Free digital art installation for the 25th anniversary celebration of Arts Brookfield, New York, and the Top Ten of the 3rd Cinema Perpetuum Mobile International Short Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus, among others. Her animated short film, El Don de los espejos (2013), is part of the Official Selection of the 12th FICM, and has also participated in the 25th Kinoforum São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil; in the 16th Future Film Festival, International Festival of Cinema Animation and New Technologies, Bologna, Italy; and the 29th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), among others. For this work she won the award for Best Animated Short Film at the 9th Short Shorts Film Festival Mexico (SSFFM).