Based in Mexico City
& Los Angeles, California
Salomón was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2002 he enrolled at the Universidad de Los Andes to study philosophy, but dropped out to pursue filmmaking. After studying at Black Maria, and the Academy of Photographic Arts Film School in Sydney, Australia, his film Sonrisa was nominated for Best Dramatic Short Film at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival. He went on to direct music videos and award-winning commercials for brands such as Toyota, Pepsi, Axe, Renault, and Unilever. In 2011 he was hired by the production company Ennova to direct commercials in Beijing, China. Returning to Bogotá, Salomón opened the city’s first independent cinema, Cine Tonalá, a cultural space where cinema and art intertwine. Simultaneously, he was commissioned by Dynamo Productions to direct the film Detective Marañón (2015). He has worked with top artists such as Nicky Jam, J Balvin, Shaggy, Karol G, Sech, Chocquibtown, among others.
Pablo graduated from Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). His first feature film Las Lágrimas (2013) toured film festivals around the world such as Locarno (Carte Blanche Award), Rotterdam (World Premiere), Morelia (Mexican Premiere), Toulouse, Latinbeat at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, Thessaloniki, Havana, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Guadalajara, Lima, Cartagena and others. He’s currently preparing his next two feature films Corpus and La Cascada. He’s a creative member in Panamericana Pictures, where he writes, directs and produces.
Chica is a Mexican-Brazilian filmmaker based in Los Angeles, focused on experimental and hybrid narratives exploring displacement, colonial legacies, and borders. She co-directed FERROADA, LA FLACA, and SAME/DIFFERENT/BOTH/NEITHER, which premiered at IDFA and was shortlisted for the IDA Awards. Her feature doc SWING AND SWAY screened at Sheffield Doc Fest, Dok Leipzig, and RIDM. In 2023, she was selected for Berlinale Talents and Short Form Station with AMAINARY. She is currently developing her first narrative feature between Mexico and the US.
Emilio is a Mexican filmmaker who directed The Perfect Absent (2019), selected in Morelia and Shorts Mexico Film Festivals, and Ana’s Desire (2019), selected in festivals such as Sao Paulo (Mostra), Los Cabos, La Habana, Cinequest, Hola México, Raíces- Chivilcoy, FECIMX, Quito FLACQ, Icaro, Sant Andreu de la Barca and Lugo Film week, among others. He is the founder of the production company ANOMIA and a member of the Guadalajara Talents Programme 2020. Emilio recently finished his last film This Wild Beast, an Anomia and Panamericana Pictures production.
Paula graduated from Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). Paula has participated in the direction of publicity projects, series, and fashion films. Her documentary short film La Casa de los Lúpulos (2016) was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the Ariel Awards of the Mexican Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences. Her thesis short film Velvet (2018) also earned a nomination for Best Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival. She is currently developing her debut feature film Una Muchacha Normal, which was part of the Berlinale Film Market.
Julio was born in San Sebastian, Spain. A deep curiosity for the darkest corners of the human mind made him study psychiatry at the University of the Basque Country. In 1992, he directed his first feature film Vacas (1992) which earned him the Goya Award for Best New Director, and earned him awards in festivals such as Tokyo, Torino and Alexandria. In 1993 he made his second movie, La Ardilla Roja (1993); Stanley Kubrick enjoyed the film so much that he bought the original print from Medem. His third movie, Earth (1996) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. In 1998 he released Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998), a fan favorite and box-office hit with more than one million viewers in Spain. In 2001 his fourth movie, Sex and Lucia (2001) became a huge box office success and started the career of actress Paz Vega, who won the Goya for Best New Actress. His most recent works include Ma Ma (2015) with Penelope Cruz and The Tree of Blood (2018) with Úrsula Corberó and Álvaro Cervantes. He is currently preparing his film OCHO.
Mexican director considered as one of the strongest voices in the documentary genre in Latin America. His filmography includes Pulque Song (2003), The Old Thieves (2007), The Open Sky (2011), Drought (2011) and El Paso (2015), all screened and awarded at various festivals like IDFA, Toulouse, Locarno, Montreal, BAFICI, Sarajevo, Guadalajara and Morelia. His most recent film Devil’s Freedom (2017) was awarded the Amnesty International Film Prize at the Berlinale in 2017. In 2018 was director of A 3 Minute Hugs, first Netflix Originals in Latin America for documentary, he collaborated with the New York Times OpDocs platform with the film Children from the Narcozone (2019). Member of The Academy of Motion Picture.
Sociologist and filmmaker. She studied filmmaking at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in México. She has directed several short films between Mexico, Nicaragua and Germany. With her first short film, she gained the support to the production from Cinergia Fund in Central America. Her works have participated in festivals like the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, Morelia International Film Festival, FICUNAM, Stockholm Festival, Toulouse, among others. In 2015, she was part of the Talent Campus of Berlin in Guadalajara. Her short film Isabel Im Winter (2014) won Best Short Film at the Icaro International Film Festival and was part of the Semanie de la Critique at Cannes 2016. Fuerza Bruta (2016), her last completed project, premiered at Morelia International Film Festival and had international premiere at Cinelatino, Rencontres de Toulouse where it obtained the Revelation Prize for Best Short Film. At the moment, she works as a director in both Nicaragua and Mexico.
Martin studied Communication Sciences and Cinema at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). He has experience as a director and editor of feature films, short films, advertising and video clips. In advertising, he has worked in management for some of the most important brands in Mexico and abroad. His pieces have won several awards as director and editor in the most important festivals of the advertising medium, such as Cannes Lions, Cyclops, El Ojo de Latin America, el Círculo Creativo, and more.
Nacho Clemente obtained a degree in Public Relations and Advertising in 2004. He also studied Cinema in the Cinematography School of Madrid. His professional career began as an advertising creative and soon he started directing campaigns and documentary series for major international brands all over the world. As a film director, his short film Marionetas (2019) was nominated for Best Iberoamerican Short film at FICG35. His last documentary Orígenes (2020) is now screening on Amazon Prime.
Mees was born in Amsterdam and graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2013. He was twice nominated for a Crystal Bear at the Berlinale Film Festival for his short films Even Cowboys Get to Cry (2013) and A Hole in My Heart (2015) and won a Golden Calf (aka a Dutch Oscar) for We Will Never Be Royals (2015). In 2016 Mees received the prestigious Dutch Directors’ Guild Award for A Hole in My Heart, awarded annually for the most remarkable directing performance of the year. Mees has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation Résidence where he wrote his first feature film Paradise Drifters, which premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2020.