Name Ernesto Contreras | Role Film director | |
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Born 1969 Veracruz, Veracruz Awards Ariel Award for Best First Work, Ariel Award for Best Short Fiction, Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award Nominations Ariel Award for Best Picture, Ariel Award for Best Direction Movies Blue Eyelids, A Secret World, The Obscure Spring (L, Los no invitados, The Last Heroes of the Penin Similar People Cecilia Suarez, Jose Maria Yazpik, Emmanuel del Real, Enrique Arreola, Irene Azuela | ||
Semblanza del cineasta ernesto contreras
Ernesto Contreras (born 1969 in Veracruz, Veracruz) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter.
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- Semblanza del cineasta ernesto contreras
- Ernesto contreras director blue eyelids en espanol
- Filmography
- Short films
- IV Concurso Nacional De Cortometraje 1998
- Guadalajara International Film Festival 2007
- Special Jury Prize
- Special Jury Award
- Silver Ariel
- Alba International Film Festival 2008
- Guadalajara Film Festival 2000
- Guadalajara Film Festival 1999
- Cannes Film Festival 2007
- Grand Prize
- References
Graduate from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM. His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best Short Film in 2004, for The non-invited.
In 2007, Párpados azules (Blue Eyelids), his first feature-film received the Best Iberoamerican Film and Script awards, as well as the Mezcal Award of the Young Jury in the XXII Guadalajara International Film Festival. He was later nominated for the Camera d’Or of the 60th Cannes Film Festival competing in the official selection of the 46th International Critics' Week. In September of that same year, he received a Special Mention in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and he also received the National University Distinction Award in Artistic Creation. In 2008, the Sundance Film Festival and the Miami International Film Festival gave him both a Special Jury Prize, and he received the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best First Work.
Paralleling, he produced and coedited the feature documentary The Last Heroes of the Peninsula, by director José Manuel Cravioto, with whom he is currently codirecting a documentary on the Mexican rock band Café Tacvba’s 20th Anniversary.