Mayra Veliz
Directing
Biography
Mayra Veliz, woman filmmaker (director, writer) from Guadalajara, Mexico. Winner of IMCINE’s (Mexican Film Institute) 1st contest to support film production in Mexico’s Western region, 2015, with the short film "Lejos de Casa" (2017). Participant in the 2020 IMCINE’s “virtual poles” program with the documentary idea "... Esperanza", later winner of the support for post-production through the promotion program for Mexican cinema (FOCINE) 2021.
Known For
Three blind athletes dream of participating in the Paralympic Games. Blindness marked their lives from birth, and later, athletics led them to discover the world.
Daughters Of The Wind
Risa is a Japanese teenager that is on a field trip in Mexico. She gets lost in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere and a Mexican boy will try to help her.
Far From Home
An elderly woman narrates how she was tricked, robbed and forced to marry her captor at the age of 19 and how, many years later, she found her freedom.
...Esperanza
A monster that lives in the darkest part of the sea, a dreamlike representation of the journey towards the depths of something that one wants to avoid and that is finally faced.