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orge Fons Pérez (born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico on April 23, 1939) is a Mexican film director.

He belongs to the first generation of film directors of the UNAM. His short film, Caridad (1973), is still considered one of the best films in Mexican cinema. Two of the most important films of his filmography are Rojo amanecer (1989) and El callejón de los milagros (1995) based in the homonym book by Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley of 1947 (زقاق المدق), which breaks the classic lineal plots in films.

His 1976 film, Los albañiles, won the Silver Bear at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] In 1995, his film El callejón de los milagros won a Special Mention at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His work has received critical acclaim and many accolades. He has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including two Best Director awards for Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018). He is the first Latin American director to receive the award for Best Director. He has also received Academy Awards for Best Film Editing for Gravity and Best Cinematography for Roma. Cuarón’s other notable films include the family drama A Little Princess (1995), the erotic drama Y Tu Mamá También (2001), the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and the dystopian thriller Children of Men (2006).

Emmanuel Lubezki Morgenstern, A.S.C., A.M.C. (born 30 November 1964) is a Mexican cinematographer. He sometimes goes by the nickname Chivo. Lubezki has worked with many acclaimed directors, including Mike Nichols, Tim Burton, Michael Mann, Joel and Ethan Coen, and frequent collaborators Terrence Malick, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

Lubezki is known for groundbreaking uses of natural lighting and continuous uninterrupted shots in cinematography, often utilizing a Steadicam, a 3-axis gimbal, or hand-held camera to orchestrate fluid, uninterrupted camera movements during particularly significant scenes. His work has been praised by audiences and critics alike, which earned him multiple awards, including eight Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography. He won in this category three times, becoming the first person to do so in three consecutive years, for Gravity (2013), Birdman (2014), and The Revenant (2015).

He got the attention of national and international film critics with his first movie, A Thousand Clouds of Peace that won Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Award for Best Film and awards at the Bogota Film Festival and Lima Latin American Film Festival. His second film Raging Sun, Raging Sky also won Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Award for Best Film. His feature Broken Sky won the Special Jury Award at Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. His short film, Bramadero, was shown in the sixth Edition of Morelia International Film Festival.

He won the 2011 Ariel Award for Best Picture for Hell
Herod’s Law (original Spanish title La ley de Herodes) is a 1999 Mexican comedy film, it’s a political satire of corruption in Mexico and the long-ruling PRI party. The film won the Ariel Award for Best Picture from the Mexican Academy of Film. Un mundo maravilloso (“A Wonderful World”) is a 2006 Mexican comedy fairy tale film, a “spiritual sequel” to La ley de Herodes; it’s a political satire about Vicente Fox Quesada’s government and its neo-liberal doctrine. El Infierno (English: Hell) is a 2010 Mexican crime film following the line of La ley de Herodes. The film is a political satire about drug trafficking, organized crime, and the Mexican Drug War. The film has been a critical and commercial success in Mexico and was nominated for the 25th Goya Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. The Perfect Dictatorship (Spanish: La dictadura perfecta) is a 2014 Mexican comedy political satire film. It was released on October 16, 2014 and it will represent Mexico at the 2015 Goya Awards.

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Delgado (born 22 January 1942) is a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar.

Born in Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, in center Mexico, Hermosillo’s films often explore the hypocrisy of middle-class Mexican values.

He worked with Gabriel García Márquez on “Mary My Dearest” in 1979 and “The Summer of Miss Forbes” in 1988. His 1991 film Homework was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Mention.

Hermosillo currently teaches film-making at the University of Guadalajara and has recently collaborated with his students on various projects.

Fernando Eimbcke studied film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM (1992–1996). He started his career directing music videoclips and short films. His feature debut in Mexican cinema was the 2004 Temporada de patos (Duck Season), which won several Film Festival awards including the Ariel Award for Best Film. His next film, the 2008 Lake Tahoe, was received positively at the Berlin International Film Festival, winning two awards.

She studied at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México with the intention of becoming a film director. She realized how drawn she was to photography which was Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s area of expertise. He was a teacher at the university as well as a cinematographer, photographer and became her mentor.She traveled with Bravo between 1970 and 1971 and learned that “there is always time for the pictures you want.”In 1971 she was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and a scholarship at the Guggenheim College.[citation needed] Iturbide photographs everyday life, almost entirely in black-and-white. She was inspired by the photography of Josef Koudelka, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado and Álvarez Bravo. Her self-portraits especially reflect and showcase Bravo’s influence and play with innovation and attention to detail. She became interested in the daily life of Mexico’s indigenous cultures and people (the Zapotec, Mixtec, and Seri) and has photographed life in Mexico City, Juchitán, Oaxaca and on the Mexican/American border (La Frontera). With focus on identity, sexuality, festivals, rituals, daily life, death and roles of women; Iturbide’s photographs share visual stories of cultures in constant transitional periods. There’s also juxtaposition within her images between urban vs rural life and indigenous vs modern life. Iturbide’s main concern has 9 been the exploration and investigation of her own cultural environment.She uses photography as a way of understanding Mexico; combining indigenous practices, assimilated Catholic practices and foreign economic trade under one scope.