Ernesto Pardo

Películas

El eco
Director of Photography
In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story about the echo of what clings to the soul, about the certainty of shelter provided by those around us, about rebellion and vertigo in the face of life. About growing up.
La vocera
Cinematography
La Portavoz narra el viaje de María de Jesús Patricio, la primera mujer indígena en postularse a la presidencia de México, revelando la naturaleza y complejidad del racismo y la discriminación de género en una sociedad cambiante.
Vivos
Director of Photography
Since an attack on students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in 2014 resulted in six deaths and in the forced disappearance of 43, the students’ families have been living in limbo with their unanswered questions, their struggle embodying the psychological and emotional toll of endemic violence upon Mexican society.
Soleils noirs
Director of Photography
An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds methodically through unsettling testimonials, sketching a portrait of an entire country transformed into a gigantic mass grave thanks to a climate of impunity established by both criminal gangs and state authorities.
Agave: The Spirit of a Nation
Director of Photography
In Mexico, families have passed down the tradition of distilling agave for generations and now, this once obscure Mexican drink is everywhere. Discover, how one delicate plant has carried the weight of a nation and the people trying to protect it.
Tempestad
Director of Photography
A woman is recruited to a prison controlled by organized crime while another woman searches for her missing daughter. Through images that submerges us in a journey from north to south Mexico, both testimonies collide and take us to the center of a storm: a country where violence has taken control of our lives, our desires and our dreams.
Guerrero
Director of Photography
In the state of Guerrero, México, activists Coni, Juan and Mario rebel against impunity, regardless of the sacrifices and risks - even mortal - that their struggles involve.
Alicia más allá del abismo
Director of Photography
El Multiforo Alicia es un espacio donde se busca provocar la rebeldía, el cuestionamiento, la resistencia, la reflexión y finalmente la organización autogestiva de los habitantes de la Ciudad de México. Es aquel lugar en donde caben esas otras personas que no entran dentro del deber ser establecido por el mercado de la cultura. Este documental nos cuenta qué es y cuál es el sentido de que exista.
The Naked Room
Director of Photography
The Naked Room shows a whole world without leaving a single space: the examination room in a children’s hospital in Mexico City. Listening to children, their parents and the doctors during consultations allows us to have a more profound and complex view of our social reality and of human nature.
El lugar más pequeño
Director of Photography
Years after the Salvadoran military destroyed the village of Cinquera in that country’s civil war, survivors have returned to rebuild their community. Soulful, beautifully rendered, this amazing debut is an evocative testament to place, memory and the power of life to rebound from tragedy.
Barrio
Director
A failed footballer, a remote father and one man who becomes grandfather ... In a neighborhood of Mexico City, three mature men tell us little stories about their unfulfilled hopes, love and the passage of time.