Melissa Castañeda
Production
Biography
Tijuana, 1998. As part of Violeta Cine, she is the producer and co-writer of "Los Fundadores", film awarded at FICUNAM, FIDMarseille, and ZINEBI, and screened at Márgenes, Cámara Lúcida, and Black Canvas. Producer of "Agua Caliente" premiered at FICUNAM and FIDMarseille. Producer and co-writer of "El Mirador", currently in post-production and part of the WIP Competition at the Mar del Plata IFF. All films directed by Diego Hernández. She currently co-produces "Solo tengo sed" (dir. Matt Porterfield), which was part of CineMart Rotterdam, "El fin de la infancia" (dir. Diego Hernández), winner of the Cine Qua Non Lab award at Talents Guadalajara, and Clemente Castor's next feature. She is also developing the documentary short film "Y todo es luz dentro de mí" (Cuōrum Residency, DOCS MX Platform) as a co-director.
Known For
Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.
She Stays
Mario wakes up with no memory of his past life. His encounter with Lazare marks the beginning of a spatio-corporeal drift, from the eastern suburbs of Mexico City to the surrounding underground cavities, where bodies and landscapes crack in the same motion.
Cold Metal
Annya and Guillermo are aspiring actors entering adulthood in Tijuana: Guillermo works at a Call Center and Annya is an Uber driver. After a misunderstanding, Annya ends up accepting a ride from a director who has just returned to the city to produce his new film.
El Mirador
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Vicario (o mi tercer intento de hacer cine)
Alejandra and Víctor come from completely different backgrounds, and live in a city that is artificially divided in two by a wall: Tijuana and San Diego. She works putting nails at a beauty salon, while he studies business and is starting his own company. In the wake of a tragedy, the two have to make a trip to the other side of their respective borders, where those miles of distance sentence the way they both face their lives.
Travesías
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Miss
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Schrödinger
Despite a great effort, the professional development of Diego, Andres and Renee, university students, is affected due to a diversion of resources by the authorities.
Los Fundadores
Mariel along with her brother, neighbors and friends in Las Cumbres, their neighborhood in Tijuana, plan how to defend their loved ones from a plague of narcos and alien thieves who are causing water shortages in their homes.
Las Cumbres
In a context with few possibilities of mobility, Diego and his mother are faced with the need to share time and space. Household chores and interviews accompany their routine, suddenly, a malfunctioning boiler interrupts life. Diego's girlfriend's birthday is coming up and with it several decisions to make.