Image Cizana López; Alma Yoari Direction Alma Yoari Cizana López is a Zapotec filmmaker originally from the Oaxaca Valley. She majored in Communication Sciences and subsequently expanded her documentary filmmaking training through programs such as Ambulante Más Allá [Ambulante Beyond] and CCC con Patas—an initiative associated with the Film Training Center [CCC, by its initialism in Spanish, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica]. As a filmmaker, she has made the short films Trazos de la Resistencia [Traces of Resistance]—which explores graphic art and the social movements that took place in Oaxaca in 2006—and Mujer Raíz [Woman of Roots]—which portrays the experiences of women who continue to sustain their homes while facing migration processes.In collaboration with filmmaker Patricia Matus Alonso, she co-directed Ni racaladxe’ (Lo que yo quiero) [What I Want], a documentary short film made in the Zapotec language and produced with the support of the Incentive for Audiovisual Creation in Mexico and Central America for Indigenous and Afro-descendant Communities [ECAMC, by its initialism in Spanish, Creación Audiovisual en México y Centroamérica para Comunidades Indígenas y Afrodescendientes] from the Mexican Film Institute [IMCINE, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía]. Other Movies The Dreamers In Paris, American student Matthew meets a brother and sister, with whom he shares a passion for film. When their parents leave for the countryside, he moves in with them and learns that their relationship surpasses the boundaries of ordinary sibling affection. See More 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 Related News The Michoacan author José Rubén Romero 09 · 25 · 26 EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL: Herzog and the existence of the extraordinary 09 · 17 · 26 Tippett Studio and Paul Verhoeven: the end of an era between eroticism and science fiction 09 · 17 · 26 RIO, ZONA NORTE: reasons to smile 09 · 09 · 26 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Cizana López; Alma Yoari Direction Alma Yoari Cizana López is a Zapotec filmmaker originally from the Oaxaca Valley. She majored in Communication Sciences and subsequently expanded her documentary filmmaking training through programs such as Ambulante Más Allá [Ambulante Beyond] and CCC con Patas—an initiative associated with the Film Training Center [CCC, by its initialism in Spanish, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica]. As a filmmaker, she has made the short films Trazos de la Resistencia [Traces of Resistance]—which explores graphic art and the social movements that took place in Oaxaca in 2006—and Mujer Raíz [Woman of Roots]—which portrays the experiences of women who continue to sustain their homes while facing migration processes.In collaboration with filmmaker Patricia Matus Alonso, she co-directed Ni racaladxe’ (Lo que yo quiero) [What I Want], a documentary short film made in the Zapotec language and produced with the support of the Incentive for Audiovisual Creation in Mexico and Central America for Indigenous and Afro-descendant Communities [ECAMC, by its initialism in Spanish, Creación Audiovisual en México y Centroamérica para Comunidades Indígenas y Afrodescendientes] from the Mexican Film Institute [IMCINE, by its acronym in Spanish, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía].
The Dreamers In Paris, American student Matthew meets a brother and sister, with whom he shares a passion for film. When their parents leave for the countryside, he moves in with them and learns that their relationship surpasses the boundaries of ordinary sibling affection. See More
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
The Michoacan author José Rubén Romero 09 · 25 · 26 EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL: Herzog and the existence of the extraordinary 09 · 17 · 26 Tippett Studio and Paul Verhoeven: the end of an era between eroticism and science fiction 09 · 17 · 26 RIO, ZONA NORTE: reasons to smile 09 · 09 · 26
Tippett Studio and Paul Verhoeven: the end of an era between eroticism and science fiction 09 · 17 · 26
