Portraits
of a Search
(2014) is her first documentary feature film.
This project was
selected by IMCINE
to receive Guidance for the Development of Storylines and was
produced with the Fund for Quality Film Production FOPROCINE.
In
2010, she participated in the Theory and Practice Workshop of
Documentary Filming and Postproduction, sponsored by AMBULANTE
and the Mexican Film Institute, where she was selected to direct the
short film A
Possible Dream.
She
has worked as a journalist in written press, radio and television for
14 years.
Her works have been published in Mexico’s main editorial
groups, such as Reforma
and Milenio,
as well as in international media, such as the Associated
Press agency
and the cultural channel NCI,
of the Association of Ibero-American Educational and Cultural
Television.
She
has a bachelor in Communication Sciences and Techniques by the UNIVA,
with postgraduate studies in Communication, Social Change and
Development, at the Complutense University of Madrid.
She has taught
at the bachelor in Communication of the ITESO,
the Jesuit university of Guadalajara.
She is former grant holder of
the Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation, of the Knight Center
for Journalism, among others.
She
is currently working on her second feature film documentary, in which
she has had the guidance of documentary filmmaker Tatiana Huezo in
the Development stage, as part of the workshops of the International
Film Festival in the Desert, held in Sonora.
Women who live in Ciudad Juarez organize safe havens for children in some of the most violent neighborhoods in Mexico. There, Diana, Joseph and Gael seek out the freedom that they once had on the streets, and try to heal the wounds that the violence of organized crime has caused them.
In the Mexican narco-war, thousands of mothers search for their missing sons and daughters. In Portraits of a Search, the stories of Natividad, Guadalupe and Margarita intertwine to convey the different forms of confronting the search and uncertainty: one turns to the FBI, another obtains the Nation´s president´s personal promise, and the other tries to return to her routines so as to save her grandson. A portrait of Mexico today.