Ernesto Contreras

Ernesto Contreras

출생 : 1969-10-17, Veracruz, Mexico

약력

Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1969, he is a graduate from the Center for Studies in Communication Sciences and later from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2007, his first feature, Blue Eyelids, is nominated to the Caméra d'Or of the 60th Cannes Film Festival as part of the official selection of the International Critics' Week. The film participates in many festivals and receives, among others, the award for Best Ibero-American Film, Best Screenplay and the Mezcal Award in the 22nd Guadalajara International Film Festival, the Ariel for Best First Feature and the Special Jury Award at Sundance and Miami, both in 2008. His feature documentary Being: Café Tacvba premiers in 2010, a film on the 20th anniversary of Mexico's most important rock band. And in 2015 his third film hits the theaters, The Obscure Spring, winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Performance, awarded to the main cast, at the 32nd Miami International Film Festival. It also won three Ariel awards (editing, music and sound) and was nominated in seven other categories by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. In 2016, he directed the episode "Eroticism", starring Irène Jacob, part of the feature film Tales of Mexico, produced by Machete Producciones. His latest film, I Dream in Another Language, a project that received the Sundance Institute / Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award, and supported by the National System of Creators, received the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2017. Alongside his filmmaking, Contreras has been General Director for documentary series for NatGeo and HBO.

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Ernesto Contreras
Ernesto Contreras

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Dad or Mom
Dad or Mom
Producer
Florencia and Vicente are getting divorced. When both are promoted at their jobs, they will do anything in order to do not keep custody of their children.
Dad or Mom
Dad or Mom
Director
Florencia and Vicente are getting divorced. When both are promoted at their jobs, they will do anything in order to do not keep custody of their children.
웨어 더 트랙스 엔드
웨어 더 트랙스 엔드
Executive Producer
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
웨어 더 트랙스 엔드
웨어 더 트랙스 엔드
Director
Georgina is a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of the children she educates in the classroom of a wagon school in rural Mexico.
불가능한 것들
불가능한 것들
Director
폭력적인 남편의 사망 후, 마틸데는 여전히 트라우마와 외로움 그리고 유령같이 그녀의 주변을 맴도는 남편의 흔적에 시달린다. 이웃집 소년 미겔과 가까워진 마틸데는 미겔의 마약 판매에 가담하면서, 이전까지 경험하지 못했던 새로운 삶에 눈을 뜨기 시작한다. 나이 차에도 불구하고 두 사람이 나누는 평범하지 않은 우정은 서로의 상처를 보듬고 치유해 준다. 삶의 막다른 골목에서, 불가능해 보였던 희망을 향해 나아가는 마틸데와 미겔의 용기 어린 선택이 감동으로 다가온다.
Tales of Mexico
Tales of Mexico
Director
The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents, delivering an intimate human history of Mexico through the decades. La Habitación will reunite eight directors that will expose the reality of each historical period resulting in a profound and inspiring portrait of modern Mexico.
나는 다른 언어로 꿈을 꾼다
나는 다른 언어로 꿈을 꾼다
Director
소멸 위기의 고대 토착 언어 ‘시크릴어’. 그러나 시크릴어를 구사하는 마지막 원어민, 이사우로와 에바리스토는 젊은 시절 크게 싸운 뒤 서로 말을 안 섞은 지 50년이 넘었다. 젊은 언어학자 마르틴은 연구를 위해 이들을 설득하려 하지만 둘의 과거는 시크릴어의 비밀과 함께 숲 속 깊이 감추어져 있는데... 50년이 넘도록 얽히고설킨 그들의 진짜 비밀이 드러난다.
은밀한 계절, 봄
은밀한 계절, 봄
Director
Igor is a plumber; Pina serves coffee. It is winter and they both deeply desire each other, but they are not free. In trying to figure out how to realize their love, she decides to make a lion costume for her little son and he decides to buy a photocopying machine for his wife. Spring will come at last and with it the consummation of love, filling their lives with hope and sex.
The Convict Patient
The Convict Patient
Editor
On February th 1970, Carlos Castañeda de la Fuente tried to assassinate the Mexican President to avenge the Tlatelolco massacre from October 2nd 1968, defying the most repressive regime in the contemporary Mexican history. Forty years later, this failed avenger survived the system´s disproportionate retaliation, only to wander Mexico City´s streets as a vagrant.
Continue Being: Café Tacvba
Continue Being: Café Tacvba
Writer
A rock band traveling many places of the world, and on planes, buses, in hotels and dressing rooms we discover the creative process that brings them together, their friendship, frustrations and the desire of still being a rock band, the most important rock band in Mexico, on the year that they celebrate 20 years of being Cafe Tacvba
Continue Being: Café Tacvba
Continue Being: Café Tacvba
Director
A rock band traveling many places of the world, and on planes, buses, in hotels and dressing rooms we discover the creative process that brings them together, their friendship, frustrations and the desire of still being a rock band, the most important rock band in Mexico, on the year that they celebrate 20 years of being Cafe Tacvba
Blue Eyelids
Blue Eyelids
Editor
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
Blue Eyelids
Blue Eyelids
Producer
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
Blue Eyelids
Blue Eyelids
Director
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
The Miracle
The Miracle
Director
A miracle is about to happen, Margarita, like everyone wants to attend, but Alfonso, her husband, believes that everything is a sham.