Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.- Four feature films with producers from Baja California were selected for the 37th Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG). This event is recognized for being the most important festival in Latin America, as reported by the Secretary of Economy and Innovation, Kurt Honold Morales. These films are included in the first selection announcement within the categories created to recognize works of fiction, documentary and animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cMade in Jalisco\u201d section includes the documentary \"Escocia No Es Un Banco\", directed by Carlos Matsuo and Cristian Franco, about Carlos Maevans' journey from Jalisco to Tecate, Baja California to convince the rest of the band members of \"Los Nuevos Maevans\" to meet and revive the anti-system dream of their youth. Each one has made a different life and has been kept away from that dream, while Cristian desperately searches for a way to finance their return, never giving up until he is trapped in the pandemic generated by COVID-19. In the words of producer Abraham \u00c1vila: \"Making this film is a success because it was in a pandemic, no one was betting that it could be done, sometimes we ourselves almost abandon it, but it was achieved and that is the message of the film. The pandemic gave us the best possible ending.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The candidate for Best Animated Feature Film includes the documentary \u201cHome Is Somewhere Else\u201d, directed by Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos. This project combines animation, poetry and real conversations to portray three stories of young people who have grown up in the United States within Mexican immigrant families. According to producer Mariana Mar\u00edn, \u201cit is a film that bets narratively and aesthetically on speaking from another place about the experiences of immigrant families, bets on the talent of Mexican animation and, above all, bets on bringing these issues closer to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Me siento muy afortunada de formar parte de esta producci\u00f3n.\u201d Este proyecto fue producido por Brinca Taller de Animaci\u00f3n en asociaci\u00f3n con Shine Global y \u201cde la mano de un talentoso grupo de animadores mexicanos que trabajaron durante dos a\u00f1os en la producci\u00f3n, mientras atravesamos la pandemia de Covid-19, por lo que te toda la animaci\u00f3n se realiz\u00f3 a distancia. Estamos muy contentos de que este esfuerzo colectivo nos lleve al Festival de Guadalajara\u201d, ampli\u00f3 Mar\u00edn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly, as reported by the Baja Film Commission, the \u201cMezcal Section\u201d includes two films with locations within the state. The documentary \"Far From Home\", written and directed by Carlos Hern\u00e1ndez V\u00e1zquez, about a group of children and adolescents, originally from Mexico and Latin America, who await the decision on their asylum request to enter the United States in shelters in Tijuana. This feature film had the production participation of local producers Adriana Santos and Marla Arreola. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the same section, the fiction field, \u201cGuardado, Hermano\u201d is included, Jorge Sanders-Ortega's first feature film, which recently had its international premiere at the Porto Alegre International Fantastic Film Festival (FANTASPOA) in Brazil. This film was produced by Diana Trejo, who commented: \u201cit is not just the debut of me and Jorge, it was also the first feature film where students and friends worked, which makes it something very special. Leo, one of the protagonists, who was also an inspiration for the story, recently passed away, so premiering at FICG fills us with pride and nostalgia for not being able to share this dream with everyone involved.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Guadalajara International Film Festival will take place from June 10 to 18 and will have Poland as its guest of honor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tijuana, Baja California, M\u00e9xico.- Cuatro largometrajes con talento bajacaliforniano involucrado fueron seleccionados en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara (FICG) en su edici\u00f3n 37. Este evento es reconocido por ser el festival m\u00e1s importante de Latinoam\u00e9rica, seg\u00fan lo inform\u00f3 el Secretario de Econom\u00eda e Innovaci\u00f3n, Kurt Honold Morales. Estas pel\u00edculas se incluyen en el […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,122],"tags":[72,129],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cine","category-festivales","tag-cine","tag-festivales","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","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=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4634,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bajafilmcommission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}