Ángeles Cruz

Ángeles Cruz

Nascimento : , Heroica Ciudad de Tlaxiaco

História

Ángeles Cruz is a Mexican actress, screenwriter and filmmaker. Originally from La Mixteca area in Oaxaca, she has a degree in acting from the School of Theater Art of the National Institute of Fine Arts. She has participated as an actress in more than a dozen national and international feature films with directors such as Ignacio Ortiz, Jorge Pérez Solano and Francisco Vargas among others. Her work in "Tamara y la Catarina" of Lucía Carreras, earned her the "Colón de Plata" as Best Actress awarded by the "Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva" 2017 and was "Nominated for Ariel" for best female performance in 2018. It was "Nominated for the Golden Beetle" as Best Actress by the Swedish Film Academy for her work in the film "La hija del puma"(Ulf Hulberg, 1994) and in 2000 for Ariel as best female co-acting for the film "Rito Terminal" (Óscar Urrutia, 2000). Her work as a screenwriter and director has produced three award-winning short films: "La tiricia or como curar la tristeza", "La carta" and "Arcángel". Her first feature film "Nudo mixteco" will be released soon.

Perfil

Ángeles Cruz
Ángeles Cruz

Filmes

Valentina or the Serenity
Producer
Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.
Valentina or the Serenity
Writer
Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.
Valentina or the Serenity
Director
Young Valentina uses all her might to believe that her deceased father is still alive.
Subterránea
A lonely trans woman gains popularity in her town due to her clairvoyant powers. These gifts become relevant when their coastal city is besieged by disappearances and mass graves. She must decide in favor of whom to use these powers.
Medusa
Nora
When teacher Nora comes home after being held the day before, the Medusa protocol app shows her in three videos what happened in her absence between her beloved husband and who impersonated her.
Finlandia
Sara
A devastating earthquake hits Oaxaca and causes hundreds to fall victims to its effects. The drastic physical effects are felt in Mexico while across the globe its emotional effects are felt in Finland. This seismic movement has caused an emotional tremor in the lives of the Muxes.
Nudo Mixteco
Producer
The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.
Nudo Mixteco
Screenplay
The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.
Nudo Mixteco
Director
The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.
Levo Você Comigo
Rosa Maria
Baseado em uma história real, este romance de décadas entre um aspirante a chef e um professor segue sua jornada traiçoeira do México a Nova York com sonhos, esperanças e memórias a reboque.
El Eco del Caracol
Anger, Also Known As Sheol
A woman who escapes an overwhelming reality into a world of nightmares, by eating the forbidden fruit of Paradise's Tree of Eternal Life; a very frustrated man, both in his professional and love life, whose serial killer dreams may become a reality; and an autobiographical documentary on the director's healing process of a terminal cancer. A film divided in three chapters: heaven, hell and the world.
Two Fridas
La Adelita
This is not another standard biopic about Frida Kahlo. “Two Fridas” is a poetic film, based on the relation between the Mexican painter and the Costa Rican nurse Judith, who took care of Frida during the final years of her life.
Traición
Felix (56) a criminal boss in the south of Mexico, has always wanted to go to San Francisco so see how drawbridges rise for ships to go through. Misela (23), whose romantic partners die if they make her cry, seeks comfort in her mother and wants to know where she is buried. They are father and daughter, and one must betray the other in order to go on living.
Arcángel
Screenplay
Archangel is a fifty year old peasant facing accelerating vision loss. Before total darkness overtakes him, he needs to find a nursing home for Patrocinia, an elderly woman from his community that is totally dependant on him.
Arcángel
Director
Archangel is a fifty year old peasant facing accelerating vision loss. Before total darkness overtakes him, he needs to find a nursing home for Patrocinia, an elderly woman from his community that is totally dependant on him.
Don't Pass Through San Bernardino
Ligia
Amidst her pain and mourning, a peasant woman tries to find answers to her sons's death.
Tamara and the Ladybug
Tamara has Intellectual disability and a love for ladybugs. One day, she decides to take care of a baby but she forgets where she took him from, so she will get assistance from the old lady who sell quesadillas so they can return the baby to his parents.
Number Eighty
Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone and depressed in the country where he is supposed to belong. While rebuilding an old motorcycle with Don Memo, a retired motorcycle racer, with whom he is forced to work, he will discover where his real home is.
Ramona
Carmela
Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.
The Letter
Director
A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.
The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
Screenplay
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness
Director
The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.
The Girl
Rosa's Mother
Uma jovem mãe texana que perde a custódia do filho por falta de meios, procura ganhar dinheiro guiando mexicanos na travessia ilegal da fronteira com os Estados Unidos da América.
Eternal Ashes
Matiri
ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.
Spiral
Araceli 2
Their men went to the North in search of their destiny, while they stayed.
O Violino
Jefa Guerrillera 1
Don Plutarco, seu filho Genaro e seu neto Lúcio mantêm uma vida dupla. Ao mesmo tempo em que são músicos e humildes fazendeiros, eles participam da guerrilha clandestina contra o governo militar opressor. Quando os militares invadem o vilarejo em que vivem, Plutarco elabora um plano: se disfarça de um inocente violinista e retorna ao vilarejo para recuperar as armas dos rebeldes.
The Garden of Eden
Margarita Luna
Tijuana is a mystical city and the scene of different stories, where the characters search for meaning in their lives.