Mexican filmmaker dedicated to the production, photography and direction of Documentary Film, is one of the most solid voices of the genre in Latin America. Author of La Canción del Pulque (2003), Los Ladrones Viejos (2007), El Cielo Abierto (2011) and Cuates de Australia (2011), screened and awarded at festivals such as IDFA, Toulousse, Los Angeles, Locarno, Miami, Montreal, Sarajevo, Rotterdam, BAFICI, Mar del Plata, Guadalajara and Morelia, among others; He has participated in the photography department in films such as Backyard (El Traspatio) (2014) by Carlos Carrera and Diego Quemada’s La Jaula de Oro (2015), nominated for the Chamber of Gold at the Cannes Film Festival. Scholar of the Hubert Bals Fund of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Jan Vrijman Fund of IDFA and the Tribeca Film Institute. He has received 11 nominations for the Ariel Prize, awarded by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Sciences and Arts of Mexico, including Best Film and Best Director, of which he has received 8 statuettes. The International Documentary Association (IDA), chose its film Cuates de Australia (2011) to boost its candidacy to the Oscar Prizes for the Best Documentary Feature in 2012. He is also the author of El Paso (2016) and La Libertad del Diablo (2017). With this last one he received the International Amnesty Prize of the Berlin Film Festival, four awards at the Guadalajara International Film Festival, the Morelia Impulse and the Ariel for Best Documentary Feature. He is a founding partner of Artegios documentary production and distribution company.
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