José Buil
Nacimiento : 1953-03-19, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico
Historia
Director, screenwriter and editor. He left the career of Surgeon to enter the career Journalism and Collective Communication at UNAM. Founder of TAPOSIN and "Tintero" and "Sitios" magazines, he practiced cultural journalism and film criticism in "El Nacional", "La Revista de la Universidad" and "Su otro yo". In 1977 he entered the CCC (Cinematographic Training Center) where he made, in that same year, the documentary "My unemployed friends" and the fiction films "Notes for other things" (1978) and "Endre in the city" (1979), all short films made as exercises. In 1981 he filmed his thesis film, the medium-length film "Goodbye, goodbye my idol", which served as rehearsal for "The Legend of a Mask" (1989), a parody that reviews the common places of the wrestling cinema and with which he debuted professionally, receiving Ariel for Best First Film in 1991. He collaborated in "I Know Three" (1983), an independent medium-length film made by his wife, Maryse Sistach, for whom he also adapted and edited "The Steps of Ana" (1988 ), adapted "Last night I dreamed with you" (1991), based on the story of Alfonso Reyes "The creative revenge", and with it co-directed "The paternal line" (1995), story between the academic documentary and poetry, between the anthropology, autobiography and the intimate family remembrance from the rescue of homemade films filmed by his grandfather between 1925 and 1940 in Papantla, Veracruz; the film was part of the Official Selection of the 52nd Venice Film Festival; It was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the European museums of the Guggenheim Foundation, and won the Arieles for Best Original Screenplay, Storyline and Documentary Feature, as well as the Jury Prizes at the Trieste Festivals, Bogotá, Uruguay and the one of Best assembly in Gramado, Brazil. In 1997 he made for the UNAM the documentary video "The Ballad of John O'Reilly", about the participation of the Battalion of St. Patrick in the war of 1847 against the USA. He co-directed, again with Sistach, "The Comet" (1988), a film set in 1910 that is inspired by the life of the pioneers of Mexican cinema to narrate the formation of a filmmaker. That same year he received the Best Latin American film award at the San Juan Festival, Puerto Rico. In 2000, he produced, adapted and edited "Perfume de violetas" by Maryse Sistach, with which he obtained the Ariel for Best Original Screenplay. Since 1998, he is an Active Member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, A.C.
Screenplay
Año 1942 en la Ciudad de México, Goyo Cárdenas estudia biología y tiene una hermosa novia, pero Goyo también tiene algo de violencia contenida a punto de estallar al borde de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Director
Año 1942 en la Ciudad de México, Goyo Cárdenas estudia biología y tiene una hermosa novia, pero Goyo también tiene algo de violencia contenida a punto de estallar al borde de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Screenplay
Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve year old Pablo, whom he shelters in his house without telling his parents what is going on. Pablo turns the biology teacher into a baby girl with a pacifier, and a group of the elderly into children. Martin dreams of a world of only children, but Doctor Moebius steals the formula, not knowing that its effects are unpredictable.
Director
Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve year old Pablo, whom he shelters in his house without telling his parents what is going on. Pablo turns the biology teacher into a baby girl with a pacifier, and a group of the elderly into children. Martin dreams of a world of only children, but Doctor Moebius steals the formula, not knowing that its effects are unpredictable.
Writer
Corría el año del 1962 cuando cumplí 12 años y mis pechos empezaron a crecer. Cecilia, mi hermana, se fue a estudiar a París; yo me quedé sola con mis papás y sus problemas; descubrí que los pechos volvían locos a hombres y mujeres, mientras las míos empezaron a llamar la atención de mis amigos, sin que los adultos se dieran cuenta que yo también necesitaba un brassier.
Script Supervisor
Un pequeño huevo llamado Toto decide que quiere cumplir su propósito en la vida y convertirse en un pollo en lugar de morir en un sartén; por lo que comienza una búsqueda para regresar a las granjas junto con su nuevo amigo, el ruidoso huevo Willy y un tocino. Los tres amigos enfrentarán muchos obstáculos en su búsqueda.
Director
Un viernes en la ciudad de México, el periodista Rodrigo Díaz es chantajeado por un par de yuppies delincuentes, que le anuncian el secuestro de su hija Betty. Le exigen una cantidad imposible de reunir y lo empujan a una desesperada decisión.
Editor
Yessica y Miriam, dos adolescentes de la Ciudad de México, inician una fuerte amistad a pesar de sus distintas personalidades. Todo cambia cuando un joven chofer de microbús viola a Yessica con la ayuda de Jorge, el hermanastro de ella.
Producer
Yessica y Miriam, dos adolescentes de la Ciudad de México, inician una fuerte amistad a pesar de sus distintas personalidades. Todo cambia cuando un joven chofer de microbús viola a Yessica con la ayuda de Jorge, el hermanastro de ella.
Director
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
Screenplay
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
Editor
Family movies, shot with a 9.5 mm Pathé Baby camera, let us know traditions, customs, joys and sorrows of a Mexican family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Screenplay
Family movies, shot with a 9.5 mm Pathé Baby camera, let us know traditions, customs, joys and sorrows of a Mexican family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Director
Family movies, shot with a 9.5 mm Pathé Baby camera, let us know traditions, customs, joys and sorrows of a Mexican family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Writer
Toto y Quique pasan sus vacaciones de verano montando en bicicleta y espiando a Chabela, la sirvienta de la casa de Quique. A casa de Toto llega una familiar para pasar unos días. Pero no da crédito cuando ve, él que esperaba una mujer entrada en años, que se trata de una atractiva mujer, algunos años mayor que él. Para Toto, esta visita será inolvidable en más de un sentido...
Writer
A sus 30 años, luego de un divorcio y con dos hijos a cuestas, Ana todavía cultiva dos ilusiones: dirigir una película y encontrar un hombre decente.
A pesar de las altas probabilidades de éxito en su primera ambición, parece estar condenada al fracaso en la segunda: desde su ex marido hasta un chofer de taxi que no puede asimilar un no como respuesta –después de haber disfrutado del sí de una noche–, Ana va de una relación sin sentido a otra.
Screenplay
Historia del popular luchador y protagonista de locas aventuras, historietas y películas mexicanas: El ángel enmascarado. Al morir éste, un oscuro reportero de una publicación deportiva recibe la encomienda de averiguar cuál fue la verdadera personalidad del héroe. En su búsqueda, el periodista descubre que el legendario enmascarado defendió con gran celo su identidad oculta, aunque una oscura intriga, perpretada por sus socios, ensombrece la verdad.
Director
Historia del popular luchador y protagonista de locas aventuras, historietas y películas mexicanas: El ángel enmascarado. Al morir éste, un oscuro reportero de una publicación deportiva recibe la encomienda de averiguar cuál fue la verdadera personalidad del héroe. En su búsqueda, el periodista descubre que el legendario enmascarado defendió con gran celo su identidad oculta, aunque una oscura intriga, perpretada por sus socios, ensombrece la verdad.
Editor
A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".
Screenplay
A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".
Director
A strange fantasy about the decadence of the Mexican wrestler "El Santo, The Man in the Silver Mask".
Editor
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
