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García; Dano

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Dano García is a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker. They studied at the NFTS in London and at the ENAC Film School (formerly CUEC) at UNAM in Mexico City. In 2016, they directed Unsilenced, a New York Times Op-Doc about a Mexican activist who was murdered on air while hosting a radio program for displaced people. Them first feature-length documentary, Los reyes del pueblo que no existe (2015), won the SX:Global Audience Award at SXSW, the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, the Golden Eye for Best International Documentary at the Zurich Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Morelia International Film Festival, the International Jury Prize at This Human World, and the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma-Ambulante Grant. The film screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, in addition to being nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film at the 2016 Cinema Eye Honors and winning Best Documentary Director at the 2016 Cinema Tropical Awards. In 2015, it was included in Sight & Sound magazine’s list of Best Films of the Year.

Them short film Porcelana (2013) won the Best Short Film award at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (2013) and the Best Film Award at AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts in Toronto, Canada (2015). Them short film La chica con dos cabezas won the Orona Award for Best Short Film at the San Sebastián Film Festival (2018) and Best Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, in addition to being screened as part of La Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival.

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