Awards 2011

She graduated from the Cinema Training Center. Founder of the producing company “Pina y Malibú” and Circo 2.12 AC civil association. Creator of Cinema Global, a film exhibition project. In 2004 she founded the Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival (FICCO, acronym in Spanish). She is presently in charge of the General Direction of Mexico’s Cinematheque and recently received the Knight of Order of Arts and Letters awarded by the French government.

He was born in Mexico City in 1980. He has a bachelor in Audiovisual Communications and graduate studies in Cultural Promotion. He is member of the founding team of FICCO and partner in the independent musical label Discos Tormento. He was artistic director of Cinema Global (FMX Mexico Festival) in 2009 and 2010, is director of Programming for Film Distrital and Other Worlds since its second edition, is one of the producers of the documentary Beautiful at Night by María José Cuevas, currently in production, and of Gustavo Hernández’ prime opera (Quiero Club/Happy-fi) The Night Chicago Died that is planned for production in Monterrey in the first semester of 2012.

He was born in Veracruz, Mexico. Filmmaker since his teenager years. Has collaborated with Alfonso Arau, María Novaro, Carlos Carrera, Alejandro González Iñárritu, among others. His first feature film Bajo California: the limit of time, received national and international awards. Promises was nominated to an Oscar and won two Emmys. His more recent film, Tlatelolco, is in postproduction. He has given conferences and conducted classes in several countries, and has been juror in a number of film festivals.

Colin Browne is a filmmaker, film historian, writer and coordinator of the Film program in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. His films include Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye, Father and Son and White Lake, which was nominated for a Canadian Film Award as best feature-length documentary. He is on the board of directors of B.C. Film, the agency established to expand and diversify the film, television and digital media sectors in British Columbia, and serves on the board of directors of the Vancouver International Film Festival. He’s also a poet and recently completed a catalogue essay, “Scavengers of Paradise,” for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s current exhibition on Surrealism. The essay is drawn from a book and film project that explores the Surrealist romance with the Northwest Coast and Alaska. A new book, Bunion Derby, is due in 2012.

Fichman’s work is a rich compilation of feature films, documentaries, performance films and television series. His projects have garnered an Oscar, seven Emmys, numerous Genies and Geminis, Golden Pragues, a Golden Rose of Montreux and a Prix Italia. He has 30 years experience and over 200 projects to his name. Fichman has produced renowned directors such as François Girard, Olivier Assayas, Guy Maddin, Don McKellar, among others. In 2007, Fichman was named the Canadian Producer of the Year by the CFTPA.

Biologist and filmmaker graduated from the UNAM. In 1988 he received the Ariel for best documentary short film with Monarch Butterfly… puzzles forever. From 1999 to 2003 he was president of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF, acronym in Spanish). In 1999 he won the Knight in Arts and Letters from France, and in 2006 the Civil Merit Award from Spain. He is presently Executive Director of the Guadalajara International Film Festival. 

He was born in Mexico and studied Communications in his native country, Paris and New York. He became a portrait painter of actors and actresses. He was selected to become part of the Spanish photography history and has exhibited his work in several countries. He is considered one of the masters of female nudes in Europe. He is the only Mexican who formally and institutionally belongs to the contemporary Spanish photography scene. He has published eight books on photography in Europe. 

She was born in Italy in 1978. She studied Communications at the University of Bologna. She became part of the founding team of the Contemporary International Film Festival in Mexico City (FICCO, acronym in Spanish). Since 2008 she collaborates as programming director in several film festivals. She has worked as film producer and for independent artists. Presently, she is producing Natalia López Gallardo’s feature film Wolf in the midst of wolfs. She is executive director of the UNAM International Film Festival. 

Researcher and curator. Author of the books Puros Cuentos, la historia de la historieta en México [Just Stories, the story of comics in Mexico]. Screenwriter of Cartoon artists and cartoons, a series of 18 TV programs on Mexico’s cartoons. Curator for Retrospective of Mexico’s animated cinema. Screenwriter of Carlos Sandoval, sixty years of animated drawings. Author of the book The lost episode: History of Mexico’s animated films. He has published articles on cinema, photography, comics and cartoons.