Jaime Urquiza
Directing
Biography
Jaime Urquiza was born in Mexico City in 1980. His first project as director and writer was Black Constellation in 2022 which has been rewarded in more than 30 film festivals worldwide. His next short film is Traces, a Western about redemption. He's now in filming The Scandalous Charm of the Broken Egos, a surrealist short film and love letter to cinema and Mexican culture starring Silvia Pinal and he's also in pre production for his first feature film.
Known For
A group of people are confronted with their sorrow and inner demons in the worst group therapy of their lives.
Black Constellation
Maria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his passion for cooking and stopped working in "El Molcajete", now operating under the direction of chef Rosi. Maria does everything possible to bring her grandmother back to the restaurant, while chef Rosi cooks dishes according to new trends in fusion cuisine which highlights the light food, but Maria and Doña Tere won't accept the traditional flavors and cooking secrets to be forgotten. The cuisine battle between Tere and chef Rosi is an epic fight not only between long-stablished mexican food and light food, but also a struggle of family bonds, friendship, cooking secrets, flavour’s passion and more than two hundred ingredients that are needed in order to prepare Mole, a traditional mexican sauce.
Canela
Vicente, the town gravedigger, decides to exhume the body of the recently deceased Hortensia to strip her of her wedding ring, without imagining what the result of his ambition could cause.
Wedding Ring
Traces is an existential Western about a renegade man who is haunted by his inner demons for the crimes he committed throughout his life as he pursues his search for peace and redemption.
Traces
Short film inspired by the cinema of Luis Buñuel.