María Secco

Filmes

Fiesta en la Madriguera
Director of Photography
Tochtli, a boy who likes hats, dictionaries, samurais, guillotines, and the French. And now, all he wants is a new animal for his private zoo: a Namibian pygmy hippo. HIs father, Yolcaut, is willing to satisfy his every whim, even if that whim is an endangered exotic animal.
Temporada de Furacões
Director of Photography
When a group of teens finds a corpse floating in a canal, the brutal reality behind the perverse crime unravels a town's hidden secrets.
Sorcery
Cinematography
Chiloé Island, 1880. Rosa Raín is a Huilliche girl who, after the murder of her father at the hands of German settlers, seeks justice with Mateo, leader of an organization of sorcerers called “La Recta Provincia”.
Essa Não É uma Comédia
Director of Photography
Um comediante encontra um novo propósito de vida depois que a melhor amiga faz um pedido inusitado e ele conhece uma garota que se conecta com o cosmo.
Midday Cowboy
Director of Photography
The story of a true and masterly poet who lived through war, heyday and tragedy of the end of the century.
The Guardian of Memory
Additional Photography
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mexico became one of the deadliest conflict zones in the world in 2017, second only to Syria. In 2008, the Mexican government sent the army to Chihuahua on the Mexico-Texas border to fight drug traffickers. What seemed like an attempt to control the cartels turned into state-sponsored disappearances and the murder of journalists, human rights activists and civilians. The survivors and those threatened by the conflict pushed at the unwelcoming border of the United States, hoping for asylum. With stunning visual poetry, director Marcela Arteaga weaves together a record of their memories told over the backdrop of the once-vibrant landscape of the Juarez Valley. She also highlights the extraordinary work of Carlos Spector, an immigration lawyer born in El Paso, Texas, who fights to obtain political asylum for those Mexicans fleeing violence.
Wind Traces
Director of Photography
A family is left adrift after the father's departure. Mother and children will have to grow and let go of their fears in order to survive.
The Empty Box
Director of Photography
Jazmín, a young woman living in Mexico City, is nonplussed when she receives a call informing her that her father Toussaint, an illegal Haitian immigrant, is ill. She hasn't seen him in years, and does not know why they are calling her. When she finally gets to the hospital and discovers that her father is suffering from vascular dementia, she finds herself faced with the task of caring for a man who is more a stranger than a father to her.
Devil’s Freedom
Director of Photography
Mexico, 2016. In some of the world's most dangerous cities life is not worth much. Looking into the eyes of the protagonists of violence, victims as well as executioners, helps to understand how fear inserted itself in the subconscious of our society. Through a network of concrete stories, we are facing the most obscure traits of the human psyche, the frail balance between humanity and evil.
Pigs
Director of Photography
A dysfunctional young couple argues after their sex session.
Sunka Raku (Alegría Evanescente)
Additional Photography
It's a life told in four seasons. It is the orbit of a man who comes close to and steps back from the light, experiencing weather transformations in the garden of the soul. A documentary about the meticulous construction of Japanese tea houses in the Mexican Ajusco, as an excuse to discover a mind that at first glance might seem obsessive and eccentric.
Minotaur
Director of Photography
Minotaur takes place in a home of books, of readers, of artists. It’s also a home of soft light, of eternal afternoons, of sleepiness, of dreams. The home is impermeable to the world. Mexico is on fire, but the characters of Minotaur sleep soundly.
Te Prometo Anarquia
Director of Photography
Johnny (Eduardo Eliseo Martinez) e Miguel (Diego Calva Hernández) são dois skatistas, melhores amigos e amantes. Miguel é de classe média e Johnny mora em um bairro humilde, portanto, para financiar o estilo de vida que levam, eles vendem o próprio sangue, e o da sua gangue, para uma clínica clandestina. Quando uma dessas grandes transações dá errado, Miguel foge para o Texas.
A Jaula de Ouro
Director of Photography
O drama segue as aventuras de três adolescentes que buscam cruzar a fronteira mexicana para encontrar uma vida melhor nos Estados Unidos.
Apart
Director of Photography
The story of a family marked by tragedy gives rise to a reflection on memory, emotional ties, family secrets and the difficulty for new generations of knowing and accepting life events.
Los Años de Fierro
Director of Photography
This documentary tells the story of César, the oldest Mexican prisoner on death row in the United States. César has waited for his execution date for more than 30 years, always insisting that he is innocent. Los años de Fierro is a reflection on justice, imprisonment, punishment, guilt and brotherly love, through the eyes of César and his bother, Sergio.
So Much Water
Director of Photography
A family vacation is bogged down by unrelenting rain, as a teenage girl and her divorced father try to find common ground.
Dust
Director of Photography
Ignacio is shooting a documentary on the people who disappeared in 1982 during the armed conflict in an indigenous Guatemalan village. Amongst the families are Delfina and her son Juan. Delfina still hopes to find her husband, but Juan knows who was responsible for the disappearance of his father: someone who still lives in the same village.
A Demora
Director of Photography
María é uma mãe solteira, de meia idade e com três filhos. Ela nunca está sozinha, toma conta de todos, dorme pouco e trabalha demais. Augustín é seu pai, que está senil e sabe disso. Uma visita de María ao escritório de previdência social revela que ela é muito pobre para colocar seu pai em um asilo, porém muito rica para receber benefícios. Ela pensa numa solução cruel: abandonar seu pai em uma praça. Augustín espera então pelo demorado retorno da filha.
Gasolina
Director of Photography
Three middle-class teenagers out on a high-octane ride to hell outside the safety of their "colonia"
Marimbas from Hell
Director of Photography
Don Alfonso is a deliveryman. He also plays marimbas, the traditional Guatemalan instrument. He is used to play a folkloric musical show in one of the fancy hotel of Guatemala City. He faces the population's lack of interest for his instrument, considered like out of date and old fashioned. Black is pioneer of the Heavy Metal Guatemalan underground stage. He also is also a doctor in the public hospital but nobody wants to be treated by him because of his long hair and his tattoos. When Don Alfonso and Black meet each other and decide to combine their talents and create a brand new project called Marimbas from Hell, they could never have imagined all the reactions they would provoke among the population.