{"id":4453,"date":"2021-12-15T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:32:46","slug":"2021-gran-ano-para-los-cortometrajes-realizados-en-baja-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/2021-gran-ano-para-los-cortometrajes-realizados-en-baja-california\/","title":{"rendered":"2021: BIG YEAR FOR SHORT FILMS MADE IN BAJA CALIFORNIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Twenty-five short films were screened internationally at forty-five festivals and exhibitions.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.- December 15th, 2021.- Twenty-five short films made by Baja California talent were screened at festivals worldwide in 2021. These projects were selected in forty-five events held in fifteen countries. The documentary \u201cDefend the Asylum\u201d directed by Andr\u00e9s Gonz\u00e1lez participated in six events and at the San Diego Latino Film Festival it won First Place in the Migrant Voices Film Challenge. For its part, \"Ob\u0101chan\" by Nicolasa Ruiz was named Best Documentary Short Film at Shorts M\u00e9xico, the largest short film festival in Latin America, and won the Documentary Program of the Cinema Imaginarios Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEl Fuerte Se Cae\u201d by Kenia Amaya, was the winner of the Best Regional Fiction Short Film of the Human Film Festival and was the first place as Best Regional Short Film of the Ensenada Film Festival (FENS). \u201cHoras de Expreso\u201d by Marlon Morales, was part of the San Diego and Monterrey festivals, as well as being a finalist in Buenos Aires, and being part of the representative sample of Baja California exhibition \u201cMiradas Locales\u201d, along with \u201cDefend the Asylum\",\"La \u00daltima Frontera \/ The Last Frontier\" by \u00c1xel N\u00fa\u00f1ez, and \"Al Final de la Noche \/ At the End of the Night\" by Rodrigo \u00c1lvarez Flores. Another short film by Morales (\u201cHypocrisis\u201d) received the Zoom Narratives award at the International Film Festival with Alternative Media (FICMA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award for Best Horror Short Film at the Macabro Festival was received by \u201cInsolaci\u00f3n\u201d by Rogelio S\u00e1nchez Toledo, who also participated in Monterrey and Shorts M\u00e9xico. The second place for Best Short Film in the Nespresso Talents M\u00e9xico competition went to Enrique Aguirre Nu\u00f1ez, with the animation piece entitled \u201cCoraz\u00f3n\u201d. The audience award for the 48 Hours University Rally of the Guanajuato International Film Festival was received by Jair Chang with \u201cEstrella\u201d. The Best Regional Documentary Short at the Humano Film Festival was \u201cJornalero\u201d by Paola Manzano; at the same event where \u201cPola\u201d by V\u00edctor Estrada also debuted, this last one also participated in the FENS together with \u201cCanta, Viejo Loco\u201d by Joaqu\u00edn Cari\u00f1o, \u201cPay de Lim\u00f3n\u201d by Tom\u00e1s Jacob Escalante, \u201cHado\u201d by Alejandro Morales Reyes, with these last two receiving the second and third places as Best Baja California Short Film, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arturo Campos' \u201cPerd\u00f3n\u201d debuted as a part of the compilation \u201cDesayuno Continental Vol. 1\u201d and the later participated along Diana Trejo's \u201cRiders\u201d at the San Diego Latino Film Festival; the latter was also selected by the LA Latinx Film Festival and Matera Sport Film Festival, in Italy. \u201cLos Renegados\u201d by Braulio Medina was part of the Corto Creativo programs of the International University of the Californias (UDCI) and the FENS. \u201cA-Pagar\u201d by Roberto Ledesma received the award for Best Actor in the Amaetur Category for Leo Aldair Huerta at the Caligari International Horror Film Festival in Spain. The Honorable Mention of the Red Snow Latin American Competition went to Eduardo Ort\u00edz for \u201cSe Escribe con B\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Osaka International Film Festival, \u201cAdagio\u201d was selected; directed by Rolando Hern\u00e1ndez Cruz, and produced by Caleb Triana, who directed \u201cNo Soy Como T\u00fa\u201d, a semi-finalist at the Lonely Wolf London International Film Festival. The finalist for National Fiction Short Film at the International Animal Film Festival was \"Humano\" by Alan Obreg\u00f3n. With twelve mentions at festivals, Sergio Nolasco's \u201cElder Leaves \/ Hojas of Sauco\u201d received the award for Best International Short and Best Photography for Marco Aurelio C\u00e9lis at the Gona Film Awards in India; likewise, the honorable mention \u201cMessage of Hope\u201d at the Tokyo International Short Film Festival, and recognitions at the Moscow, Paris, Prague and Venice Beach festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude, the project produced by Yadira Rodr\u00edguez in Tijuana locations, \u201cDial Home\u201d received the jury award for Best Documentary Short Film at the San Francisco Film Festival for its director C\u00e9sar Mart\u00ednez Barba; this short film was also selected for the San Sebastian, Camden, Hot Springs and Double Exposure festivals.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five short films were screened internationally at forty-five festivals and exhibitions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,122],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-4453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cine","category-festivales","tag-cortometrajes","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}