Ángel L.

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Angel Linares *Jackson Wild Fellow 2022 *Selected in the Pathways Mentorship Program of the Realscreen Summit 2021. *Santiago Wild Lab Fellow 2023 CEO, Director and producer in the renowned independent non-fiction content production company Manifiesto Cine, which focuses on documentaries on social, environmental and indigenous community issues. Additionally is the production company for the audiovisual content for clients like VINCI Construction (CIMESA , Menard México, Soletanche-Bachy México), Merck México, INGEUM and have worked with Mexico City Government, Discovery Home and Health, BBVA, NDI and OXFAM. He studied at Universitary Center of Film Studies of National Autonomous University of Mexico (CUEC-UNAM). His documentary short film, “The Invisible Mountains” was nominated for the Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Sciences and Arts, was the winner of the Best Documentary Short Film Award at the 11th Morelia International Film Festival, and was shown at the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival and at the Sarajevo Film Festival, he received the honorable mention of the José Rovirosa Award for best Mexican student documentary, honorable mention of the International Documentary Festival of Mexico City DOCSMX and the honorable mention on the Caracas International Film Festival, among other awards.. In 2015 he was selected to participate in the 10th International Student Film Camp "Interaction 2015" in Pozega, Serbia, where he directed the short film "Grad" which was selected on the Green Film Festival on Seoul. His latest short film “El Sol Bajo Los Pies”, about agricultural laborers from La Montaña region in the State of Guerrero, is part of the collective feature film “La Danza de las Fieras”, which has recently been awarded at various festivals around the world. His last documentary film is suported by The Redford Center. His documentary debut as director, “La Misma Sangre”, currently in post-production, was selected and awarded in various international development labs and workshops like: the Meeting "Nuevas Miradas" of EICTV (Cuba), the Workshop of Film Projects of Central America and Caribbean of the Ibermedia Program, the FLICC Latin American Audiovisual Market, the Andean residence of Documentary Screenplay, the MiradasDoc Market and is currently the recipient of the FOPROCINE / IMCINE Fund for Quality Film Production. He currently directs two documentary feature films and is a producer of the films “No Time to forget and “Mined Land”. He is focused in films of peasant and native communities of Mexico and Latin America and social and politics problematics in the region.

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