Image Díaz Aguirre; Sebastián He studied Hispanic American language and literature at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Mexico. His work has been shown at more 20 film screenings, museums, galleries and festivals around the world. He participated in the Art in Video Cooperative, in 2003, at the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City, with his documentary videos Neografiti (2002) and Mexican Cebras (2002). The last one he co-directed with Juan Eduardo Navarrete and Ana Paola Rodríguez. His short fiction film El canto de los grillos (2004) was screened at the TNT (Thursday Night Thing) of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), United States, in 2004. He did the photography and editing of the documentary feature Tijuaneados anónimos: Una lágrima, una sonrisa (2009), by José Luis Figueroa and Ana Paola Rodríguez, selected at the 7th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and winner of the Best Local Picture award at the 18th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. His documentary short film Rap de la frontera (2003) won Second Place in the documentary film category at the 19th Chicago Latino Film Festival, United States. His first documentary feature Tierra brillante (2011), which premiered at the 7th Indigenous Film and Video Festival (FECVI), Morelia, won the Grand Prize at the 8th International Film Festival on Ceramics and Glass (FIFAV in French), France, and the Anthropology and Material Culture Award at the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Scotland. His documentary short film Toñita’s (2013), co-directed with Beyza Boyacioglu, is part of the Official Selection of the 12th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). This work received the Brooklyn Pride Award at the 17th Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), New York, and has been presented, among other film screenings and festivals, at the 15th MoMa Documentary Fortnight, at the Museum of Modern Art of New York, where it had its world premiere; the 25th New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF); and the Documentarist 2014, Istanbul, Turkey. Other Movies Naza Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. See More 5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa Esperanza is a young novice living in a quiet convent full of old nuns. After eating some “special” mushrooms, innocent Esperanza becomes modern and psychedelic Brenda: a subversive girl who raids a high-society party, sings subversive songs and charms young fellows. See More 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 Related News The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26 Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26 Otros Realizadores Mexicanos Tenemos la misión de recolectar a las mentes mas creativas de México y promover su trayectoria al mundo. Ingresar
Image Díaz Aguirre; Sebastián He studied Hispanic American language and literature at the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Mexico. His work has been shown at more 20 film screenings, museums, galleries and festivals around the world. He participated in the Art in Video Cooperative, in 2003, at the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City, with his documentary videos Neografiti (2002) and Mexican Cebras (2002). The last one he co-directed with Juan Eduardo Navarrete and Ana Paola Rodríguez. His short fiction film El canto de los grillos (2004) was screened at the TNT (Thursday Night Thing) of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), United States, in 2004. He did the photography and editing of the documentary feature Tijuaneados anónimos: Una lágrima, una sonrisa (2009), by José Luis Figueroa and Ana Paola Rodríguez, selected at the 7th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and winner of the Best Local Picture award at the 18th San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), California. His documentary short film Rap de la frontera (2003) won Second Place in the documentary film category at the 19th Chicago Latino Film Festival, United States. His first documentary feature Tierra brillante (2011), which premiered at the 7th Indigenous Film and Video Festival (FECVI), Morelia, won the Grand Prize at the 8th International Film Festival on Ceramics and Glass (FIFAV in French), France, and the Anthropology and Material Culture Award at the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Scotland. His documentary short film Toñita’s (2013), co-directed with Beyza Boyacioglu, is part of the Official Selection of the 12th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). This work received the Brooklyn Pride Award at the 17th Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), New York, and has been presented, among other film screenings and festivals, at the 15th MoMa Documentary Fortnight, at the Museum of Modern Art of New York, where it had its world premiere; the 25th New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF); and the Documentarist 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
Naza Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. See More
5 de chocolate y 1 de fresa Esperanza is a young novice living in a quiet convent full of old nuns. After eating some “special” mushrooms, innocent Esperanza becomes modern and psychedelic Brenda: a subversive girl who raids a high-society party, sings subversive songs and charms young fellows. See More
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
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26 Visit the Beaches of Michoacán 10 · 29 · 26 The 24th FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 12 10 · 23 · 26 LOS LOBOS: NATIVE SONS by Piero F. Giunti and Doug Blush Screened at the 24th FICM 10 · 23 · 26
The Curaçao International Film Festival opens a call for entries for the second edition of Impact, in collaboration with FICM 11 · 05 · 26
