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Ivonne Fuentes

History

Mexico City, 1973. Director, screenwriter, film editor, producer and costume designer. She studied communication studies at Universidad Iberoamerican Noreste in Tijuana, BC. Later, she studied at CUEC, majoring as a filmmaker. She studied an arts history diploma course at Instituto Cultural Helénic. With the help of the FOPROCINE and a grant from the FONCA, she made her first feature documentary El viaje del cometa, which has participated in several festivals and won the jury's special mention at Guadalajara Film Festival in 2009. Since 2002, she has been art director at several movies: Adán y Eva (todavía), La Sangre Iluminada, Norteado, Adiós mundo cruel, Caja Negra, Miss Bala, Juego de niños, Chávez, Carmín Tropical, Plan Sexenal, El peluquero romántico, y and tv series Niño Santo. She has been nominated for the Ariel awards for best setting and for best art direction for the movies Rito Terminal, El crimen del Padre Amaro, Adán y Eva (todavía), and Norteado. Presently, she is working in a series of engravings and collage for an installation at the art gallery Casa Valencia in San Diego, California. She is also working in her second feature documentary El verde.

Movies

Production Design

Luis, an 18-year-old Mexican boy with indigenous roots, enters the Heroico Military College with the hope of securing a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to make him a perfect soldier.

Amores Incompletos

Amores Incompletos

Art Designer

The Black Minutes

The Black Minutes

Art Direction

In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.

Production Design

Francisco was building a luxurious house in Mexico where a fatal accident caused the death of his brother. When Francisco learns that his widowed sister-in-law will not receive a compensation from the opulent owner of the house, he will seek justice.

Production Design

In a timeless México where women are disappearing, a girl helps her dad, a tormented addict, to take care of an abandoned baseball camp where the narcos gather to play.

The Romantic Barber

The Romantic Barber

Production Design

Victor, a 37 year old hairstylist at Mexico, has a really standard routine: he works, plays domino, watches soccer and cleans his house. He also likes romantic music and old classic mexican movies. But suddenly, he has to break this routine and go to Rio the Janeiro.

Production Design

Mercedes’ fantasy turns into a nightmare. Juan’s greatest fear takes the shape of a strange man entering his house. The city has fallen into chaos and anarchy, so it's going to be difficult to get some ice for the drinks; but tonight, Mercedes is an object of desire to men, so nothing else matters.

Production Design

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labour organiser torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Passionate but soft-spoken, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to working people.

Art Direction

The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.

The Journey of the Comet

The Journey of the Comet

Screenplay

A couple of retired teachers transform an unused school bus into a mobile home. With the help of a few telescopes, a pension, and a heartfelt dream, they begin their journey to the most isolated parts of Mexico to teach a little astronomy to the public schools across the country for free.

The Journey of the Comet

The Journey of the Comet

Director

A couple of retired teachers transform an unused school bus into a mobile home. With the help of a few telescopes, a pension, and a heartfelt dream, they begin their journey to the most isolated parts of Mexico to teach a little astronomy to the public schools across the country for free.

Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada

Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada

Art Designer

Stories of Disenchantment

Stories of Disenchantment

Costume Design

In a world devoured by an invisible force known as disenchantment, the stories of three characters intertwine: Diego, who tries to make a movie about the dreams of Ximena, an adolescent experiencing her sexual awakening, who is secretly in love with him and who, in order to help him in his bizarre project, leads him to Ainda, a conceptual artist with bat wings, with whom the naïve filmmaker falls madly in love. Ainda is attracted by the purity of the young people and seduces them both, which leads to a magical moment in the lives of all three. But soon the young people discover that their beloved harpys heart belongs to a being from beyond the grave. Then the idyllic relationship of the three characters begins to crumble and they do everything in their power to prevent it, as the dark force of disenchantment closes over the city.

The Crime of Padre Amaro

The Crime of Padre Amaro

Set Decoration

Sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito, young Father Amaro faces a moral challenge when he meets a 16-year-old girl who he starts an affair with. Likewise, the girl's mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must choose between a holy or sinful life.

Production Design

In 1870, four different stories happen in four different places in the world.