Ivonne Fuentes

História

Mexico City, 1973. Director, screenwriter, film editor, producer and costume designer. She studied communication studies at Universidad Iberoamerican Noreste in Tijuana, BC. Later, she studied at CUEC, majoring as a filmmaker. She studied an arts history diploma course at Instituto Cultural Helénic. With the help of the FOPROCINE and a grant from the FONCA, she made her first feature documentary El viaje del cometa, which has participated in several festivals and won the jury's special mention at Guadalajara Film Festival in 2009. Since 2002, she has been art director at several movies: Adán y Eva (todavía), La Sangre Iluminada, Norteado, Adiós mundo cruel, Caja Negra, Miss Bala, Juego de niños, Chávez, Carmín Tropical, Plan Sexenal, El peluquero romántico, y and tv series Niño Santo. She has been nominated for the Ariel awards for best setting and for best art direction for the movies Rito Terminal, El crimen del Padre Amaro, Adán y Eva (todavía), and Norteado. Presently, she is working in a series of engravings and collage for an installation at the art gallery Casa Valencia in San Diego, California. She is also working in her second feature documentary El verde.

Filmes

Heroic
Heroic
Production Design
Luis, um jovem de 18 anos de origem indígena, ingressa no Colégio Militar Heroico com a esperança de garantir um futuro melhor. Lá ele encontra um sistema rígido e institucionalmente violento projetado para torná-lo um soldado perfeito.
Amores Incompletos
Amores Incompletos
Art Designer
The Black Minutes
The Black Minutes
Art Direction
In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.
Workforce
Workforce
Production Design
Francisco was building a luxurious house in Mexico where a fatal accident caused the death of his brother. When Francisco learns that his widowed sister-in-law will not receive a compensation from the opulent owner of the house, he will seek justice.
Compra-me Um Revólver
Compra-me Um Revólver
Production Design
Em um mundo dominado pela violência, onde mulheres são prostituídas e assassinadas, uma garota usa uma máscara do Hulk e uma corrente no tornozelo para esconder seu gênero e ajudar seu pai, um viciado atormentado, a cuidar de um campo de beisebol abandonado onde traficantes de drogas jogam
The Romantic Barber
The Romantic Barber
Production Design
Victor, a 37 year old hairstylist at Mexico, has a really standard routine: he works, plays domino, watches soccer and cleans his house. He also likes romantic music and old classic mexican movies. But suddenly, he has to break this routine and go to Rio the Janeiro.
Sexennial Plan
Sexennial Plan
Production Design
Mercedes’ fantasy turns into a nightmare. Juan’s greatest fear takes the shape of a strange man entering his house. The city has fallen into chaos and anarchy, so it's going to be difficult to get some ice for the drinks; but tonight, Mercedes is an object of desire to men, so nothing else matters.
Chavez
Chavez
Production Design
Cinebiografia do ativista pelos direitos humanos e ícone popular Cesar Chavez.
Miss Bala
Miss Bala
Art Direction
Laura Guerro (Stephanie Sigman) e Suzu (Lakshmi Picazo), moradoras de Tijuana, estão muito animadas com o concurso de beleza Miss Baja. Aceitas pela organização, vão comemorar em um bar, mas um ataque criminoso as separa. Procurando pela amiga desaparecida desde o acontecido, Laura acaba chamando a atenção do cartel de drogas local, que decide usar sua beleza.
The Journey of the Comet
The Journey of the Comet
Screenplay
A couple of retired teachers transform an unused school bus into a mobile home. With the help of a few telescopes, a pension, and a heartfelt dream, they begin their journey to the most isolated parts of Mexico to teach a little astronomy to the public schools across the country for free.
The Journey of the Comet
The Journey of the Comet
Director
A couple of retired teachers transform an unused school bus into a mobile home. With the help of a few telescopes, a pension, and a heartfelt dream, they begin their journey to the most isolated parts of Mexico to teach a little astronomy to the public schools across the country for free.
Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada
Lila Downs - Lotería Cantada
Art Designer
Stories of Disenchantment
Stories of Disenchantment
Costume Design
In a world devoured by an invisible force known as disenchantment, the stories of three characters intertwine: Diego, who tries to make a movie about the dreams of Ximena, an adolescent experiencing her sexual awakening, who is secretly in love with him and who, in order to help him in his bizarre project, leads him to Ainda, a conceptual artist with bat wings, with whom the naïve filmmaker falls madly in love. Ainda is attracted by the purity of the young people and seduces them both, which leads to a magical moment in the lives of all three. But soon the young people discover that their beloved harpy’s heart belongs to a being from beyond the grave. Then the idyllic relationship of the three characters begins to crumble and they do everything in their power to prevent it, as the dark force of disenchantment closes over the city.
O Crime do Padre Amaro
O Crime do Padre Amaro
Set Decoration
O jovem padre Amaro acaba de ser ordenado e em breve irá para Roma continuar seus estudos, graças à boa relação que mantém com o bispo. Antes, contudo, deve trabalhar em uma paróquia. Ele é enviado para Los Reyes para atuar sob as ordens do padre Benito, o vigário que aparentemente vive uma existência corrupta e contraditória. Lá Amaro conhece a linda e devota Amelia, filha de Sanjuanera, dona do restaurante mais importante da cidade e amante do padre Benito. Diante do mundo real, Amaro é confrontado com a hipocrisia da Igreja, que condena as guerrilhas mas convive com chefes do tráfico de drogas.
Eureka
Eureka
Production Design
In 1870, four different stories happen in four different places in the world.