Type Private Headquarters Mexico City, Mexico Founded 1998 | Genre Motion pictures Website www.mantarraya.com | |
Founders Pablo Aldrete, Jaime Romandía | ||
Mantarraya Productions, is an independent cinema production company funded in 1998. In their web page they define Mantarraya as; "... works as a platform for a new generation of filmmakers and has earned a reputation for promoting new talent".
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NDMantarraya is the label they use for distribution (in association with Nodream Cinema company of film director Carlos Reygadas), and NDM is the international sales company label.
Mantarraya Productions is known for their risky content on their films. They are the Mexican production company with the most international film awards in the last 50 years. Since 2002 they participated 8 times in different sections of the Cannes Film Festival and their parallel sections; 6 times in the "Official Selection", 4 of them in the Competition and 2 more in "Un Certain Regard", also they have been invited 2 times to the Directors' Fortnight a parallel section of Cannes Film Festival.
This 2013 they are participating for second year in a row, back to back, in the Competition of the "Official Selection" of the Cannes Film Festival with the film Heli by Amat Escalante.
The Mexican Academy choose Heli to represent Mexico for the 2014 Oscars Award.
Spontaneous generation
In 2005 Mantarraya participated with two of their productions in the "Official Selection" at the Cannes Film Festival, unusual for an independent production. That year they participated with Battle in Heaven by Carlos Reygadas invited to the Competition and Sangre by Amat Escalante who was invited to Un Certain Regard where the film was honored by the FIPRESCI Award.
In 2005 the French newspaper Le Monde referred to them as: "Mexique, la génération spontanée".
In 2007 they repeated this achievement as they were invited with two other of their productions, Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas who received the Jury Prize in the Competition of the "Official Selection" and La Influencia by Pedro Aguilera that premiered at the Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival.