Writer / Director
Patricia Arriaga Jordán
Patricia studied Communications at the Universidad Iberoamericana
in Mexico City. She received her Masters Degree and Ph.D. in Economics from
the New School for Social Research in New Cork City. She studied photography
at Parsons School of design in NYC and at the Centro de Imágen in Mexico.
She started in television working for the Latin American version of Sesame
Street. She was Head of Corporate Image for Canal Once in Mexico,
and later became Head of Once Niños (Canal Once’s children’s programs), where
she was Creative Director and Executive Producer of the award winning TV series
Bizbirije, Mi Gran Amigo, Camino a Casa
and El Divan de Valentina seasons I and II. Her productions
have received over 30 national and international awards. She has also written
and directed several episodes for TV drama series.
Patricia won the 2nd and 3rd National Short Film Competition from the Mexican
Films Institute with the 35mm short films El Pez Dorado and
La Nao de China, both of which she wrote and directed. La
Nao de China won 1st prize for National Short Film, and 2nd Prize
for International Short Film at the Guanajuato Film Festival and the Golden
Prize for Best Fiction at the Ismailia International Film Festival. The short
has been official selection in several international film festivals and was
nominated for an Ariel award for Best Fiction Short Film by the Mexican Academy
of Film.
| Writer
/ Director: |
Patricia
Arriaga Jordán |
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| Producers |
Pablo
Buelna Serrano |
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Alfredo
Marrón Santander |
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| Director
of Photography: |
Héctor
Ortega |
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| Film
Editor: |
Miguel
Lavandeira |
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| Production
Designer: |
Gloria
Carrasco |
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| Original
Score: |
Rodrigo
Sigal Sefchovich |
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| Sound
Designer: |
Pablo
Fernández |
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Producer
Pablo Buelna Serrano
Pablo began working in films in 1974, in CONACINE. He was Production Manager for several projects under the direction of Sergio Olhovich, Rogelio A. González, Emilio Fernández, Tito Davison, Fernando Cortez, Marcela Fernández Violante and Serguei Bondarchuck. During the 80s he worked under Carlos Saura, Oliver Stone, J. Lee Thompson, Richard Flecher, Paul Verhoeven, David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowski, John Frankenheimer and Guillermo del Toro, among others. In the late 90s, Pablo was in charge of several productions for Abraham Cherem’s company with Julián Pastor, Rodolfo López Real and Victor Ugalde. In the year 2000 he began work on soap operas for TV Azteca, under Antulio Jiménez Pons’ production team.
Producer
Alfredo Marrón Santander
Alfredo studied Communications at the Universidad Iberoamericana
in Mexico City, where he produced the 16 mm short film Extraño.
He worked as Studio Producer and Camera Director for the Channel 11 children’s
TV shows Bizbirije and Mi Gran Amigo. He
produced the short film series Camino a Casa, where he also
directed the 35mm short Nos Vemos en Milan, which was a finalist
at both the Prix Jeunesse International Festival and the Chicago Children´s
Film Festival. He produced and co-created the award winning series El
Divan de Valentina for which he also directed several episodes. He
is currently Head of Once Niños and Executive Producer for the series Bizbirije
and Futboleros. Alfredo was also producer of the Disney
Club for Disney Latin-America, and the 35mm short films El
Pez Dorado and La Nao de China.
Director of Photography
Héctor Ortega
Héctor studied Communications at the Universidad Iberoamericana where he majored in film and studied Cinematography at UCLA. Héctor is a member of Film and Video Arts of New York and also a founding member of the group Tiempo y Tono, where he has worked as D.P. since 1992 for several film and TV commercial ads. He has also been a director of photography in commercial ads for other production companies including Primer Corte, Conciencia Films, Leica Films, Aqua Films and Draco Films, among many others.
Héctor was DP for the short films Azulado, La Hora
Cero, La Partida, La Nao de China
and Los Elefantes Nunca Olvidan. The former was selected
for the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Director´s Fortnight while La Partida participated
in the 2003 edition of the same festival in the International Critic´s Week.
He was D.P. in the feature film De la Calle for which he
was nominated for the Golden Frog at the 2001 Camerimage International Film
Festival and the 2002 International Film Festival of Viña del Mar, Chile.
De la Calle won over 25 national and international awards.
Film
Editor
Miguel Lavandeira
Miguel Lavandeira studied Communications at the Universidad
Complutense in Madrid, Spain, and Film Editing at the Escuela Internacional
de Cine y Television in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His Film Editing credits
include the feature film Por si no te Vuelvo a Ver by Juan
Pablo Villaseñor and the short film Con el Ojo en la Nuca
by Rodrigo Plá, which won the Student Oscar in 2003. Miguel has also been
Editor for several 35mm short films, including Fin de Juego
and El Oro que Perdimos, as well as documentaries directed
by Ignacio Ortíz and the first children’s TV Drama series in Latin America,
El Divan de Valentina.
Production Designer
Gloria Carrasco
Gloria studied Directing and Scenic Design at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México. She has been Production Designer in the following
feature films: La mujer de Benjamin, Morir en el
Golfo, Hasta Morir, La Orilla de la Tierra,
Sin Remitente, Demasiado Amor, Cuentos
de Hadas para Dormir Cocodrilos, La Novia
del Mar and Mezcal. She has also designed production
for the short films El Hombre que no Escucha Boleros, El
Pez Dorado and La Nao de China. Her TV work includes
the series Encuentros y Desencuentros, El Divan de
Valentina, and the soap operas Todo por Amor and
Cuando Seas Mía. She was also Production Designer for the
shows Manto de Estrellas and Crónicas de una Conquista
for Discovery Channel.
Her stage work, as both Set and Costume Designer, include the following productions:
Fotografía en la Playa, The Magic Flute,
El Abrecartas, De la Mañana a la Medianoche,
Clotilde en su Casa, The Tempest, Faust,
La Traviata and Cena entre Amigos, among others.
She received two Best Set Design Awards for her stage work and won the Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film -to which she had been nominated six times before for her productions.
Original Score
Rodrigo Sigal Sefchovich
Rodrigo received his B.A. in Musical Composition from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales (CIEM) in Mexico City and his Ph.D. in Musical Composition with Electro-acoustic Media from the University of the City of London (UCL). Rodrigo was Coordinator of the Computer Music Laboratory at the CIEM from 1994 to 1998. He was also a member of Mario Lavista’s Composition Workshop. Among his teachers were Denis Smalley, Javier Álvarez, Franco Donatoni, Judith Weird, Michael Jarrel and Juan Trigos.
Rodrigo has earned grants from prestigious institutions in different countries such as the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) and the CIEM in Mexico, the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, the ORS and the Sydney Perry Foundation in England, the Estudio LIEM and the Ministry of Culture from Spain, and the Agon Studio in Italy.
He has recently completed Rimbarimba: lejos del silencio
a work for marimba and electro-acoustic media commissioned by Robert Esler
(New Haven, CT), and Miedo Liquido for the Maarten Altena Ensemble from Holland.
He also recently composed the music for the piece Limite Siete,
by the contemporary dance company Aksenti.
Sound Designer
Pablo Fernández
Pablo studied music at the Escuela Nacional de Música y Antropología in the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia and Sound Editing at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City.
He has worked as Sound Editor in the feature films Un embrujo,
Sexo, Pudor y Lagrimas, Por la Libre and
Mezcal. He was Sound Designer and Original Score Composer
for the TV series El Divan de Valentina and for the short
films El Pez Dorado and La Nao de China.
He was selected for the 2004 Talent Campus Berlinale in Berlin which was devoted that year to Sound Editing and Music for Films.
