Vigas; Lorenzo

He studied biology at the University of Tampa, Florida, and took a workshop in advanced cinema at New York University (NYU), United States. With his short fiction film Los elefantes nunca olvidan (2004), he participated in the 43rd Critics’ Week, Cannes, France; the 27th Clermont-Ferrance International Short Film Festival, France; and the New Directors/New Films 2005 at Lincoln Center and the MoMa, New York, among others. For this film he won the Special Mariposa Monarca Jury Award at the 2nd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM); the award for Best Mexican Short Film at the 8th Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF); the Best Short Fiction Film prize at the 15th Río de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Curta Cinema, Brazil; and the Casa de América Award at the 32nd International Film Festival of Huesca, Spain, among others. His feature Desde allá (2015) won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, and will premiere in Mexico at the 13th FICM.