Antonino Isordia Llamazares (born 30 April 1973 in
Xilitla, San Luis Potosí) is a Mexican film and documentary director known for making documentary films in a more cinematic style.
His films have been shown at
International Film Festivals and received awards in his native Mexico,
Argentina,
Austria,
Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. He has had a documentary feature film and a documentary
short each nominated for
Ariel Awards.
Isordia is a graduate of the
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica
The Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) is a film school belonging to Mexico's Secretariat of Culture. It was founded in 1975 with the aim of providing technical and artistic training for those entering the film industry. The CCC is p ...
film school in
Mexico City.
He also attended the
Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin, Germany in 2005.
His most notable films are ''1973'' (2005) and ''Los Niños Devoran Lobos'' (''Kids Devour Wolves'', 2008).
[
] His films and documentaries have won the Silver Goddess Mexican Award
and the JVC award of the
Guadalajara International Film Festival.
He won an award for Best Video Documentary at the Valdivia International Film Festival in
Valdivia, Chile in 2001 for ''Descenso'' (''Descent'').
[ Anexo:Ganadores del Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (Spanish wikipedia)] ''1973'' appeared at the
Seminci Film Festival in
Valladolid, Spain.
In ''Variety'' Robert Koehler wrote of Isordia's work from the
Palm Springs International Film Festival that:
The subject matter of ''Los Niños Devoran Lobos'', violence among youths, was considered important enough that the rights were picked up for broadcast in 2008 on
Tr3s in Mexico and
MTV Latin America in Central America and several South American countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
He directed a brief animated introduction to the first Cinema Planeta Film Festival held
in
Cuernavaca,
Morelos
Morelos (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Morelos ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 36 municipalities and its capital city is Cuer ...
in 2009.
He then produced a similar animated short, that was directed by Carlos Armella, which served as an introduction to the second Cinema Planeta Film Festival held in 2010.
Works
In addition to directing documentaries, Antonino Isordia (also credited as Antonio Isordia)
has worked on film sound, sound recording, production, and screenplay writing.
References
External links
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Anexo:Ganadores del Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (Spanish Wikipedia)
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Mexican film directors
Mexican screenwriters
Mexican cinematographers
Mexican film producers
1973 births
Living people
People from San Luis Potosí
People from Mexico City