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. Other Movies The Buzz During a live national television interview, Verónica, a famous and widely admired actress, struggles to uphold the image of a perfect life as her inner world fractures under the weight of private abuse. Trapped between silence, fear, and a sudden panic attack, she must decide whether to continue performing the illusion—or break the cycle in front of everyone. See More Yugen When relentless rain threatens her sister’s life, a ceramic girl protects a fading ember from an ancient fire. But when the fire calls back the Trees of Life, she must decide whether she can return it: the very force that keeps her sister alive. Yugen is a stop motion short film crafted over eight years with puppets made from Mexican ceramics and inspired by the natural world. See More Yo soy Rocky In 1975, an unknown, penniless actor named Sylvester Stallone staked everything on a screenplay he had written, reserving the lead role for himself. This film chronicles the trials and tribulations behind one of Hollywood’s greatest stories of triumph over adversity. See More Related News Compendio de Cineastas Contemporáneas: Lucía Gajá 01 · 10 · 22 Cortometraje mexicano en línea: Nos faltan, de Lucía Gajá y Emilio Ramos 08 · 21 · 18 Lucía Gajá prepara secuela de su documental Mi vida dentro 07 · 12 · 18 Películas nominadas al Ariel 2018 que participaron en el FICM 06 · 05 · 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.
The Buzz During a live national television interview, Verónica, a famous and widely admired actress, struggles to uphold the image of a perfect life as her inner world fractures under the weight of private abuse. Trapped between silence, fear, and a sudden panic attack, she must decide whether to continue performing the illusion—or break the cycle in front of everyone. See More
Yugen When relentless rain threatens her sister’s life, a ceramic girl protects a fading ember from an ancient fire. But when the fire calls back the Trees of Life, she must decide whether she can return it: the very force that keeps her sister alive. Yugen is a stop motion short film crafted over eight years with puppets made from Mexican ceramics and inspired by the natural world. See More
Yo soy Rocky In 1975, an unknown, penniless actor named Sylvester Stallone staked everything on a screenplay he had written, reserving the lead role for himself. This film chronicles the trials and tribulations behind one of Hollywood’s greatest stories of triumph over adversity. See More
Compendio de Cineastas Contemporáneas: Lucía Gajá 01 · 10 · 22 Cortometraje mexicano en línea: Nos faltan, de Lucía Gajá y Emilio Ramos 08 · 21 · 18 Lucía Gajá prepara secuela de su documental Mi vida dentro 07 · 12 · 18 Películas nominadas al Ariel 2018 que participaron en el FICM 06 · 05 · 18
