Israel Cárdenas

Nascimento : 1980-02-15, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

História

Israel Cárdenas is a Mexican film director, editor, cinematographer and producer based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán founded Aurora Dominicana, an independent film production company.

Filmes

Babygirl
Director
Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.
Babygirl
Editor
Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.
Babygirl
Director of Photography
Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.
Babygirl
Producer
Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.
Babygirl
Screenplay
Set in an upper-class neighbourhood of the Dominican Republic, La Hembrita is an unsettling portrait of a middle-aged woman, Dominique, and her relations with family, servants and entourage.
Bantú Mama
Editor
A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.
Morte ao Verão
Editor
Dante passa seus dias entre fábricas, skates e cadáveres, mas a única coisa que realmente importa para ele é a banda de death metal que formou com seus melhores amigos. Lucy, a namorada de seu irmão em coma, chega para visitá-lo. Sua presença causa caos, confusão e esperança.
Tragic Jungle
Editor
Para escapar de um casamento arranjado, uma mulher foge para as profundezas da selva maia, onde a natureza selvagem une o mundo humano ao sobrenatural.
A Fera e a Festa
Producer
Vera, uma diva punk em fim de carreira, chega ao Caribe para dirigir o projeto inacabado do falecido cineasta Jean-Louis Jorge, juntamente com dois amigos de longa data e seu fiel coreógrafo. Com o início dos preparativos para o musical, conflitos e mortes começam a aparecer durante as gravações.
A Fera e a Festa
Editor
Vera, uma diva punk em fim de carreira, chega ao Caribe para dirigir o projeto inacabado do falecido cineasta Jean-Louis Jorge, juntamente com dois amigos de longa data e seu fiel coreógrafo. Com o início dos preparativos para o musical, conflitos e mortes começam a aparecer durante as gravações.
A Fera e a Festa
Director of Photography
Vera, uma diva punk em fim de carreira, chega ao Caribe para dirigir o projeto inacabado do falecido cineasta Jean-Louis Jorge, juntamente com dois amigos de longa data e seu fiel coreógrafo. Com o início dos preparativos para o musical, conflitos e mortes começam a aparecer durante as gravações.
A Fera e a Festa
Writer
Vera, uma diva punk em fim de carreira, chega ao Caribe para dirigir o projeto inacabado do falecido cineasta Jean-Louis Jorge, juntamente com dois amigos de longa data e seu fiel coreógrafo. Com o início dos preparativos para o musical, conflitos e mortes começam a aparecer durante as gravações.
A Fera e a Festa
Director
Vera, uma diva punk em fim de carreira, chega ao Caribe para dirigir o projeto inacabado do falecido cineasta Jean-Louis Jorge, juntamente com dois amigos de longa data e seu fiel coreógrafo. Com o início dos preparativos para o musical, conflitos e mortes começam a aparecer durante as gravações.
Vaga-lumes
Co-Producer
Ramin é um jovem iraniano, de 30 anos, que fugiu de seu país, Irã, de navio, clandestinamente, com destino à Turquia. Mas o navio toma caminho diferente e ele vai parar em Vera Cruz, no México. Ramin fugiu do Irã por ser homossexual. Sem dinheiro, e sem saber falar espanhol, Ramin se vira em um trabalho clandestino em uma obra, onde conhece Guillermo, um Salvadorenho que deseja fugir para os Estados Unidos, e por quem Ramin irá nutrir desejos platônicos. Enquanto lida com a saudade de seus entes queridos, ele começa a descobrir uma vida mais livre, longe do Irã.
Miriam Mente
Director of Photography
Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
Drown Among the Dead
Editor
An elderly comedian is buried up to his neck in the Mexican desert. A bitter young woman threatens to pulp his head with a nail bat; the only thing that can stall her are his stories of a mythical threshold behind which lies the absolute truth. Is she in his dream or he in hers? Or were they once the Bonnie-and-Clyde-like couple we keep seeing, exacting their revenge on the world?
Sambá
Director
After fifteen years in an American jail, a man returns to the Dominican Republic. As he faces family problems, he turns to illegal street fighting and is discovered by an Italian ex-boxer.
Noelí Overseas
Director
Noelí becomes an actress and travels to Europe, where she reunites with her mother and starts feeling homesick.
Site of Sites
Associate Producer
Filmed with irony, the film describes brief moments in the lives of tourists, workers, and local vacationers around the construction of an artificial beach somewhere in the Caribbean.
Psychotropic Sunrise
Visual Effects Art Director
Following a suicide attempt, 19 year old Lito travels from Monterrey to Querétaro to visit his 20 years old cousin Koko; where he joins his group of friends with the intention of selling drugs to pay for a weekend trip to the beaches of Michoacán. Among psychotropic pills, LSD and mushrooms; among improvised friendships and trips to nature, a bond is created reinforcing their friendship; while Lito seems to find the path towards reconciliation.
Psychotropic Sunrise
Color Timer
Following a suicide attempt, 19 year old Lito travels from Monterrey to Querétaro to visit his 20 years old cousin Koko; where he joins his group of friends with the intention of selling drugs to pay for a weekend trip to the beaches of Michoacán. Among psychotropic pills, LSD and mushrooms; among improvised friendships and trips to nature, a bond is created reinforcing their friendship; while Lito seems to find the path towards reconciliation.
Psychotropic Sunrise
Producer
Following a suicide attempt, 19 year old Lito travels from Monterrey to Querétaro to visit his 20 years old cousin Koko; where he joins his group of friends with the intention of selling drugs to pay for a weekend trip to the beaches of Michoacán. Among psychotropic pills, LSD and mushrooms; among improvised friendships and trips to nature, a bond is created reinforcing their friendship; while Lito seems to find the path towards reconciliation.
The Letters
Editor
Behind the dark, sensuous and almost hallucinatory images, a grim story is smouldering about a school teacher and social activist, who after a questionable trial was convicted for killing four police officers in a Mexican province.
Sand Dollars
Director of Photography
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady client, Anne, a much older French woman, who, like many other Europeans, has found an idyllic refuge on the island to spend her last years. For Noelí, the relationship is one of convenience, but the feelings become more intense as they plan to leave together for Paris.
Sand Dollars
Producer
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady client, Anne, a much older French woman, who, like many other Europeans, has found an idyllic refuge on the island to spend her last years. For Noelí, the relationship is one of convenience, but the feelings become more intense as they plan to leave together for Paris.
Sand Dollars
Writer
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady client, Anne, a much older French woman, who, like many other Europeans, has found an idyllic refuge on the island to spend her last years. For Noelí, the relationship is one of convenience, but the feelings become more intense as they plan to leave together for Paris.
Sand Dollars
Director
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady client, Anne, a much older French woman, who, like many other Europeans, has found an idyllic refuge on the island to spend her last years. For Noelí, the relationship is one of convenience, but the feelings become more intense as they plan to leave together for Paris.
Heights
Director of Photography
Acordada à meia-noite, Miwi é encarregada de uma missão estranha: levar a irmã Juliana de carro para um lugar onde ela ficará livre de um perigo iminente. Cheias de culpa e temendo por sua segurança, elas ficam mais próximas com essa experiência.
Heights
Producer
Acordada à meia-noite, Miwi é encarregada de uma missão estranha: levar a irmã Juliana de carro para um lugar onde ela ficará livre de um perigo iminente. Cheias de culpa e temendo por sua segurança, elas ficam mais próximas com essa experiência.
Carmita
Editor
Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, and her brief initial success was followed by a slow, painful decline. Today, at 80, the woman who was once Cuba’s most beautiful actress lives totally forgotten in an old mansion in Monterrey. There she survives thanks to her tenants—strange men who she is constantly blaming for mysterious thefts and disappearances. Laura, a young woman also from the Caribbean, arrives at the mansion to work as an assistant in cleaning and housekeeping. With her she brings a video camera and the secret intention of making a documentary about the diva. Together they talk about the past, about wasted talent and lost loves.
Carmita
Cinematography
Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, and her brief initial success was followed by a slow, painful decline. Today, at 80, the woman who was once Cuba’s most beautiful actress lives totally forgotten in an old mansion in Monterrey. There she survives thanks to her tenants—strange men who she is constantly blaming for mysterious thefts and disappearances. Laura, a young woman also from the Caribbean, arrives at the mansion to work as an assistant in cleaning and housekeeping. With her she brings a video camera and the secret intention of making a documentary about the diva. Together they talk about the past, about wasted talent and lost loves.
Carmita
Screenplay
Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, and her brief initial success was followed by a slow, painful decline. Today, at 80, the woman who was once Cuba’s most beautiful actress lives totally forgotten in an old mansion in Monterrey. There she survives thanks to her tenants—strange men who she is constantly blaming for mysterious thefts and disappearances. Laura, a young woman also from the Caribbean, arrives at the mansion to work as an assistant in cleaning and housekeeping. With her she brings a video camera and the secret intention of making a documentary about the diva. Together they talk about the past, about wasted talent and lost loves.
Carmita
Director
Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, and her brief initial success was followed by a slow, painful decline. Today, at 80, the woman who was once Cuba’s most beautiful actress lives totally forgotten in an old mansion in Monterrey. There she survives thanks to her tenants—strange men who she is constantly blaming for mysterious thefts and disappearances. Laura, a young woman also from the Caribbean, arrives at the mansion to work as an assistant in cleaning and housekeeping. With her she brings a video camera and the secret intention of making a documentary about the diva. Together they talk about the past, about wasted talent and lost loves.
Carmita
Himself
Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, and her brief initial success was followed by a slow, painful decline. Today, at 80, the woman who was once Cuba’s most beautiful actress lives totally forgotten in an old mansion in Monterrey. There she survives thanks to her tenants—strange men who she is constantly blaming for mysterious thefts and disappearances. Laura, a young woman also from the Caribbean, arrives at the mansion to work as an assistant in cleaning and housekeeping. With her she brings a video camera and the secret intention of making a documentary about the diva. Together they talk about the past, about wasted talent and lost loves.
Jean Gentil
Director
Jean Remy is a Haitian man struggling to find employment in Dominican Republic. Confronted with rejection and discrimination in the city, he sets off to try his luck in the countryside. Imbued with a naturalistic grace, this deeply sympathetic portrait speaks eloquently to the trials of humanity.
Cochochi
Director
Two young indigenous brothers from the La Sierra Tarahumara region of northwest Mexico return home from Benito Juarez elementary boarding school, only to find their fates pulling them in opposite directions in director Laura Amelia Guzmán's dramatic meditation on the value of culture and the cost of progress.