Past Editions

Jury for the Michoacán Section

Flavio González Mello

Flavio González Mello (Mexico City, Mexico, 1967). Mello has worked in film, television, theater, and narrative. He studied at the CCC and the CUEC film schools. His film, Domingo siete, which he wrote and directed, obtained the 1997 Ariel for Best Medium-Length Fiction Film from the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has also written and directed the short films: En vivo (2002), El número 23 (2002), Medalla al empeño (2004), and 40 grados a la sombra (Danzante Award Huesca Film Festival, Spain, 2009). He wrote the original screenplay for Pachito Rex, produced by the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) and the CCC Film School (Mexico, 2001). He has also written and directed a number of television programs, among them the documentary miniseries El Siglo de Oro de la Melancolía (TV-UNAM, 2004), hosted by Roger Bartra, which won the Crystal Award in 2004 for Best Documentary Screenplay, and authored a number of plays, including: 1822, el año que fuimos Imperio (2000), Lascuráin o la brevedad del poder (2005), Olimpia 68 (2008), and Edipo en Colofón (2009).

José Esteban Martínez

José Esteban Martínez is a renowned visual artist from the state of Zacatecas. He studied graphic design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received a Master’s degree in Education Technology and another in Education Communication. During the Miguel de la Madrid administration he was the coordinator of content and methods at the Public Education Secretariat (SEP) in the Free Textbook department. He also worked as the director of content at the National Education for Adults Institute. He was the executive producer of the educational television series Cuentos indígenas and Onda libros at the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication and later became an advisor to the director of television and radio at the same institute. He was the director of the central region of the National Anthropology and History Institute in the state of Guerrero. He also worked as director of the Zacatecas Cultural Institute (1998-2001) and advisor to the state cultural secretaries Rogelio Cárdenas and Flavio Campos. He created activities for the Technical Secretariat of the state DIF family development agency. As a graphic artist, Martínez has collaborated with the Vorpal Gallery in New York, Eleonor Yek in Arizona, and L’Oeil de Boeuf in Paris, among others. Since 2007, he has been the director of the Zacatecas “Fronteras Migrantes” Film Festival and film commissioner for the state of Zacatecas. He has also worked as a costume designer for various theatrical productions and television programs, including Carmina Burana for the University of New York and Cuatro X.

Carlos Taibo Mahojo

Born in Mexico City in 1965, Carlos Taibo Mahojo is a film enthusiast and a “logistic-motivator-facilitator” for the new generations of producers. He is both an active teacher and producer.

He was responsible for creating the production curriculum at the CCC film school, where he taught for more than six years. He is currently in charge of developing a special field of study in this area, and is working with Martha Orozco in adapting a textbook called Manual básico de producción and another on more advanced themes in executive production, Y, ¿después de la carpeta qué? Both projects are co-sponsored by IMCINE and CCC.

He was recently invited to teach a first year production class at the CUEC-UNAM film school. Taibo Mahojo has also given more than 15 workshops on project pitching, financing and budgeting from 2005 to the present.

In 2008 he traveled with the AMBULANTE documentary film festival to four different cities in Mexico teaching workshops on how to pitch and produce documentary projects.

He was executive producer of De noche vienes, Esmeralda and Recuerdos, a documentary filmed in six countries. He also produced the short film Aquí iba el himno and the feature film Club Eutanasia, which premiered in 2005. He was production director of Dust to Dust (Por la libre), Hijos del Viento, Ambar, Who the Hell is Juliette? (¿Quién diablos es Juliette?,) The Arrival (Second Unit), High Crimes (Mexico Unit) and Bandidas, for Europacorp.

Between February 2005 and June 2007, he worked at IMCINE (Mexican Institute for Cinematography) as director of the Production Support Division.