Ernesto Contreras (born 1969 in

Veracruz, Veracruz Veracruz (), known officially as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city is located along the coast in the central p ...

) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Contreras graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigge ...

. His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the

Ariel Award The Ariel Award ( es, Premio Ariel) is an award that recognizes the best of Mexican cinema. Given annually, since 1946, by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC), the award recognizes artistical and technical excel ...

of the Mexican Academy for ''Best Short Film'' in 2004, for The non-invited. In 2007, '' Párpados azules'' (''Blue Eyelids''), his first feature-film received the Best Iberoamerican Film and Script awards, as well as the Mezcal Award of the Young Jury in the XXII

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. He was later nominated for the Camera d’Or of the 60th

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competing in the official selection of the 46th

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. In September of that same year, he received a Special Mention in the

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, and he also received the National University Distinction Award in Artistic Creation. In 2008, the Sundance Film Festival and the Miami International Film Festival gave him both a Special Jury Prize, and he received the

of the Mexican Academy for Best First Work. In January 2017, Contreras accepted the World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival for his film '' Sueño en otro idioma''. On November 1, 2017, Contreras began a two-year term as the president of the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences ( Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas ), also known as AMACC. His term will end in October 2019. Paralleling, he produced and coedited the feature documentary '' The Last Heroes of the Peninsula'', by director José Manuel Cravioto, with whom he is currently codirecting a documentary on the Mexican rock band Café Tacvba’s 20th Anniversary.

Filmography

* ''

Blue Eyelids ''Blue Eyelids'' ( es, Párpados azules) is a 2007 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Contreras. Plot ''Marina Farfán'' works at a cloth factory, and during a work ceremony the owner of the company draws Marina's name on a contest and sh ...

'' (2007) * '' Seguir siendo: Café Tacvba'' (2010) * '' The Obscure Spring'' (2014) * '' I Dream in Another Language'' (2017) * '' Impossible Things'' (2021)

Short films

* ''Sueño polaroid'' (1997) * ''Sombras que pasan'' (1998) * ''Ondas hertzianas'' (2000) * ''Gente pequeña'' (2000) * ''El milagro'' (2000) * ''Los no invitados'' (2003)

Awards

IV Concurso Nacional De Cortometraje - 1998

* The ''IV National Contest for Short Films'' ** ''El milagro''

Guadalajara Film Festival - 1999

*Mayahuel for Best Short Film ** For ''Ondas hertzianas''

Guadalajara Film Festival - 2000

*Mayahuel for Best Short Film ** For ''El Milagro''

Guadalajara International Film Festival The Guadalajara International Film Festival ( es, Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara) is a week-long film festival held each March in the Mexican city of Guadalajara since 1986. The presence in Guadalajara of delegates from other impor ...
- 2007

*Best Iberoamerican Film *Best Iberoamerican Script *Best Mexican Film, by the Young Jury *Best Director, Script, Actor, Actress, and Film, by Press ** For ''Párpados azules''

Alba International Film Festival - 2008

*Premio Subti and Premio Signis - Gazzetta d’Alba

Ariel Award - 2008

Silver Ariel

* Best First Work (Mejor Opera Prima) ** For ''Párpados azules''

Miami International Film Festival - 2008

Special Jury Award

** For ''Párpados azules''

Sundance Film Festival - 2008

Special Jury Prize

** For ''Párpados azules''

Sundance Film Festival - 2017

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic

** For ''Sueño en otro idioma''

Nominations

Cannes Film Festival - 2007

* Camera d'Or 60th ** For ''Párpados azules''

Tokyo International Film Festival The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. Along with the Shanghai International Film Festival, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals, and is considered to be the ...
- 2007

Grand Prize

* For ''Párpados azules''

References

External links

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