Image Acevedo, Izabel She studied Film at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), in Mexico City, and did postgraduate studies in screenwriting at the Catalan School of Cinema and Audiovisuals, (ESCAC), in Barcelona. She has participated in three editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). In the 8th FICM, she participated with her short fiction film Globo azul (2010), which was also part of the Official Selection of the Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes en Lambayeque FENACO, in Peru; and of the International Woman’s Film Festival in Seoul, Korea, among others. In the 10th FICM, she won the Best Short Fiction Film Award for Para armar un helicóptero (2012), which was presented in more than ten festivals around the world; including the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the 52nd Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival, the 6th Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine, and the 35th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, where it won the Award for Best International Short Film. Her first documentary feature film, El buen cristiano / The Good Christian (2016), is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM and it has traveled to festivals such as the Riviera Maya Film Festival and it won the FEISAL Award at the 31st Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG). She currently lives and works in New York as a filmmaker and editor. Other Movies If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More 40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More Related News Cortometrajes ganadores del FICM en línea: Para armar un helicóptero, de Izabel Acevedo 01 · 09 · 18 Realizadores FICM 2016: Izabel Acevedo 10 · 10 · 16 Cortometrajes del CCC completos en línea 07 · 28 · 14 FICM at Celebrate Mexico Now in New York 09 · 19 · 13 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Acevedo, Izabel She studied Film at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), in Mexico City, and did postgraduate studies in screenwriting at the Catalan School of Cinema and Audiovisuals, (ESCAC), in Barcelona. She has participated in three editions of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). In the 8th FICM, she participated with her short fiction film Globo azul (2010), which was also part of the Official Selection of the Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes en Lambayeque FENACO, in Peru; and of the International Woman’s Film Festival in Seoul, Korea, among others. In the 10th FICM, she won the Best Short Fiction Film Award for Para armar un helicóptero (2012), which was presented in more than ten festivals around the world; including the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the 52nd Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival, the 6th Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, Ukraine, and the 35th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, where it won the Award for Best International Short Film. Her first documentary feature film, El buen cristiano / The Good Christian (2016), is part of the Official Selection of the 14th FICM and it has traveled to festivals such as the Riviera Maya Film Festival and it won the FEISAL Award at the 31st Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG). She currently lives and works in New York as a filmmaker and editor.
If I Were Fire Two young lovers wander through an abandoned countryside, where reality is distorted and the ruins of a long-gone village give glimpses of the past. The presence of a mysterious horseman transforms the bucolic landscape into a nightmare. See More
Lives on the Border Lives on the border portrays the tragic consequences of an unfair sentence delivered by the U.S. criminal justice system. Through several interconnected life stories, we'll discover what Rosa Estela Olvera, a Mexican woman wrongfully convicted in the U.S. (My Life Inside 2007), endures in prison: a psycho-emotional exploration of the loneliness of confinement; and the long and arduous battle to win back her family and obtain justice. See More
40 + Divorced, childless and single, Luz visits her local healer who prescribes a scandalous remedy to unburden her soul. As Luz embarks on a sensual journey of self-discovery, she steps into her power realizing that fulfillment doesn't require a traditional path. See More
Cortometrajes ganadores del FICM en línea: Para armar un helicóptero, de Izabel Acevedo 01 · 09 · 18 Realizadores FICM 2016: Izabel Acevedo 10 · 10 · 16 Cortometrajes del CCC completos en línea 07 · 28 · 14 FICM at Celebrate Mexico Now in New York 09 · 19 · 13
