Image Gajá; Lucía She studied cinematography at the CUEC-UNAM film school in Mexico City. She has received various grants and awards for her film work, including the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for her project “Cooperativa de cine marginal,” in 2009, and the University Award for Young Academics, in the area of “Creación artística y creación de la cultura,” from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in 2012. Her work has been shown at more than 60 film screenings and festivals around the world, and has been nominated on three occasions for awards by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, the Ariel. She won the award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 47th Ariel Awards for Soy (2004). She participated in the 47th Critics’ Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, France, with her first feature length documentary, Mi vida dentro (2007), which won, among other prizes, the Best Documentary Made by a Woman and Best Feature Length Documentary Awards at the 5th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the Jury Grand Prize at the 6th Paris International Film Festival on Human Rights (FIFDH, in French), Paris, France; First Place in the “Human Rights” category at the 10th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Argentina; and Best Reporting at the 5th DocumentaMadrid International Madrid Documentary Film Festival, Spain. She is currently working on her documentary feature Batallas íntimas, which has received grants from the Fund for Quality Film Production (FOPROCINE), in 2012, and the Fiscal Stimulus for Investment Projects in National Film Production and Distribution (EFICINE), in 2013. Her film Intimate battles (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM. Otras Películas Si yo fuese fuego Dos jóvenes amantes deambulan por un campo en abandono, donde la realidad se altera y se entreven las ruinas de un pueblo que ya no existe. La presencia de un jinete misterioso convierte el paisaje bucólico en el de una pesadilla. Ver Más Vidas en la orilla Vidas en la Orilla retrata las trágicas consecuencias de una condena injusta impuesta por el sistema de justicia penal de Estados Unidos. A través de varias historias de vida interconectadas, se descubre lo que Rosa Estela Olvera, mexicana encarcelada en E.U (Mi vida dentro 2007), soporta en prisión: una exploración psicoemocional de la soledad del encierro; y la larga y ardua batalla para recuperar a su familia y obtener justicia. Ver Más 40 + Divorciada, sin hijos y soltera, Luz visita a una curandera que le receta un remedio escandaloso para liberar su alma. Mientras Luz se embarca en un viaje sensual de autodescubrimiento, abraza su poder al darse cuenta de que la plenitud no requiere un camino tradicional. Ver Más Noticias Relacionadas Compendio de Cineastas Contemporáneas: Lucía Gajá 10 · 01 · 22 Cortometraje mexicano en línea: Nos faltan, de Lucía Gajá y Emilio Ramos 21 · 08 · 18 Lucía Gajá prepara secuela de su documental Mi vida dentro 12 · 07 · 18 Películas nominadas al Ariel 2018 que participaron en el FICM 05 · 06 · 18 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Gajá; Lucía She studied cinematography at the CUEC-UNAM film school in Mexico City. She has received various grants and awards for her film work, including the Young Creators Grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) for her project “Cooperativa de cine marginal,” in 2009, and the University Award for Young Academics, in the area of “Creación artística y creación de la cultura,” from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in 2012. Her work has been shown at more than 60 film screenings and festivals around the world, and has been nominated on three occasions for awards by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, the Ariel. She won the award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 47th Ariel Awards for Soy (2004). She participated in the 47th Critics’ Week, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, France, with her first feature length documentary, Mi vida dentro (2007), which won, among other prizes, the Best Documentary Made by a Woman and Best Feature Length Documentary Awards at the 5th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the Jury Grand Prize at the 6th Paris International Film Festival on Human Rights (FIFDH, in French), Paris, France; First Place in the “Human Rights” category at the 10th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Argentina; and Best Reporting at the 5th DocumentaMadrid International Madrid Documentary Film Festival, Spain. She is currently working on her documentary feature Batallas íntimas, which has received grants from the Fund for Quality Film Production (FOPROCINE), in 2012, and the Fiscal Stimulus for Investment Projects in National Film Production and Distribution (EFICINE), in 2013. Her film Intimate battles (2016) is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM.
Si yo fuese fuego Dos jóvenes amantes deambulan por un campo en abandono, donde la realidad se altera y se entreven las ruinas de un pueblo que ya no existe. La presencia de un jinete misterioso convierte el paisaje bucólico en el de una pesadilla. Ver Más
Vidas en la orilla Vidas en la Orilla retrata las trágicas consecuencias de una condena injusta impuesta por el sistema de justicia penal de Estados Unidos. A través de varias historias de vida interconectadas, se descubre lo que Rosa Estela Olvera, mexicana encarcelada en E.U (Mi vida dentro 2007), soporta en prisión: una exploración psicoemocional de la soledad del encierro; y la larga y ardua batalla para recuperar a su familia y obtener justicia. Ver Más
40 + Divorciada, sin hijos y soltera, Luz visita a una curandera que le receta un remedio escandaloso para liberar su alma. Mientras Luz se embarca en un viaje sensual de autodescubrimiento, abraza su poder al darse cuenta de que la plenitud no requiere un camino tradicional. Ver Más
Compendio de Cineastas Contemporáneas: Lucía Gajá 10 · 01 · 22 Cortometraje mexicano en línea: Nos faltan, de Lucía Gajá y Emilio Ramos 21 · 08 · 18 Lucía Gajá prepara secuela de su documental Mi vida dentro 12 · 07 · 18 Películas nominadas al Ariel 2018 que participaron en el FICM 05 · 06 · 18
