Lila Avilés
Birth : 1982-01-01, Mexico City, Mexico
History
Lila Avilés Solís (born 1982; Mexico City) is a film director, screenwriter, producer and actress who received widespread acclaim for her first feature film, La camarista (The Chambermaid, 2018), the first movie chosen to represent Mexico at the Academy Awards and the Goyas in 2020.
Lila Avilés studied Performing Arts and Stage Direction, as well as Film Script. Before venturing into film directing, she was an actress in television series such as El Pantera (2006), Fugas del destino (2010) and Desenado profundo (2010). She debuted as a filmmaker with the short film Deja vu in 2016.
Her first feature film, La Camarista, premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. With this film, Avilés won the Ariel Award for first feature, as well as the nomination for Best Director. The film also won the Mexican Feature Film Eye at the 2019 Morelia International Film Festival. In September 2019, the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences chose The Camerista as Mexico's representative for the 34th edition of the Goya Awards and the 92nd edition of the Academy Awards.
Producer
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Casting
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Writer
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Director
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Writer
Luz works at a gallery but her real passion and purpose in life is as an opera singer. She’s been invited to audition for Madame Butterfly at one of the principal theatres in Mexico City. Luz must practice. Her friends Lycian and Chío instruct her. How to make her voice and hands dance. She’s told “Your mouth is twice the size of your eye,” and this is all part of a divine geometry that governs the world. The 25th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales.
Director
Luz works at a gallery but her real passion and purpose in life is as an opera singer. She’s been invited to audition for Madame Butterfly at one of the principal theatres in Mexico City. Luz must practice. Her friends Lycian and Chío instruct her. How to make her voice and hands dance. She’s told “Your mouth is twice the size of your eye,” and this is all part of a divine geometry that governs the world. The 25th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales.
Producer
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
Writer
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
Director
Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.
Director of Photography
'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.
Editor
'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.
Writer
'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.
Director
'Nena' is a documentary about Rosalina Avilés. She had a very big house in Cuernavaca, Mexico. When her husband died, she needed to rent her home and start working, fighting for her three children. Now they live in the US and she is alone with her memories. Nena talks about absence and resilience.
A love triangle between Mateo, Nadia and Tomas. The story of a friendship, the portrait of a paralyzed generation, the tale of how they live, love and find each other in their solitude.
Editor
Ana a adult of nine years runs a day more than all that lie ahead. Awake, is arranged, dreaming of another life, goes to his office, ends his day, returns home, runs through the streets but it no longer makes sense.
Producer
Ana a adult of nine years runs a day more than all that lie ahead. Awake, is arranged, dreaming of another life, goes to his office, ends his day, returns home, runs through the streets but it no longer makes sense.
Writer
Ana a adult of nine years runs a day more than all that lie ahead. Awake, is arranged, dreaming of another life, goes to his office, ends his day, returns home, runs through the streets but it no longer makes sense.
Director
Ana a adult of nine years runs a day more than all that lie ahead. Awake, is arranged, dreaming of another life, goes to his office, ends his day, returns home, runs through the streets but it no longer makes sense.
Writer
A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.
Editor
A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.
Director of Photography
A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.
Director
A documentary about the importance of taking care and respect for the earth, man and all forms of life, as an eternal cooperation, having as its main premise, to heal the earth to heal man. The whole story is narrated through the doctor and farmer Dieter le Noir at his Rancho Valle La Paz.
Sophie
Ramona is fat woman with too much weight and barely any luck. She recalls a childhood filled with moral abuse by her mother, sister and friends, calling her silly offensive names referencing her overweight. When she became an adult, things didn’t really get any better. She’s fired for being fat, she wants a liposuction but the doctor informs her she’s not a candidate due to her overweight, and all her universe seems to be collapsing after a series of unfortunate events. But everything will soon get better thanks to some magical beetles she finds in a Tarot café.
Woman at the Bar
Tonatiuh and Maria experience a passionate and turbulent relationship. One night, in the heat of an argument, they suffer a dramatic automobile accident. Tonatiuh is left in a coma, where he sees Alicia, his nurse, including her in his dreams about Maria. Time later, Alicia has an accident and suffers amnesia while Tonatiuh wakes up. One year later, Tonatiuh and Alicia meet and an impossible love arouses from oblivion, haunted by the ghost of Maria's memories.
Eduardo finds out about the imminent death of Lucia, his pregnant wife, who must give birth immediately to begin treatment, but her baby died soon after birth. Awakening from the operation Lucía asks to see her son. Faced with the dilemma Eduardo decide to keep death in secret and with the help of other parents comply Lucia's desire to feel mother before facing a certain death.
Julian is a young vampire who tries to live a normal life.
