Lucía Gajá
Directing
Biography
Mexican filmmaker trained in Directing at CUEC (now ENAC), specialized in documentary cinema. She has been nominated eight times for the Ariel Award, receiving it in 2005 for her short film Soy. Her debut feature Mi vida dentro and her second feature Batallas íntimas earned national and international awards, the latter having a strong impact on the discussion of domestic violence both in Mexico and abroad. She is currently working on the post-production of Vidas en la orilla. She has served on project selection committees (FOPROCINE, National System of Art Creators), been a jury member at film festivals, and received fellowships from several programs, including FONCA. She is a member of AMACC and of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the United States. In addition, she combines her creative work with teaching at CCC and ENAC. In 2012, she received the National University Award for Young Academics in the area of Creation and Extension of Culture.
Known For
Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.
Cobrador: In God We Trust
Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her family, and the helplessness of being imprisoned in a foreign country make Rosa’s story an example of the hard life of Mexican migrants in the United States.
My Life Inside
26 filmmakers bring their own vision in order to find the truth about the missing students of Ayotzinapa.
Ayotzinapa 26
Mexican feature film
Corto libre
20 years after "Mi vida dentro," filmmaker Lucía Gajá revisits Rosa Estela Olvera Jiménez's case, a Mexican migrant accused of killing a minor. The sequel shows how her family and social groups helped restore her unjustly taken freedom.
Vidas en la orilla
Its the story of five women from different countries who were victims of domestic violence and their struggle to face it and survive it. It will be an approach to this complex and extensive problem pretending to transcend the typical and stereotyped approaches.
Intimate Battles
An allegory about the kidnapping of 43 male students in Iguala, Mexico which took place in September 2014: "They buried us, but they didn't know we were seeds."
Missing
Documentary about the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbe
Graciela Iturbe
In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.