Sinopsis
Fiction. Magdalena sets out on a journey in search of her son, who disappeared en route to the US border. Traveling through the desolate towns and landscapes of today’s Mexico she meets Miguel, a young man recently deported from the United States who is making his way home. The two accompany one another: Magdalena looking for her son, and Miguel eager to see his mother again in a territory where victims and aggressors ramble together.
Graduate of Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). Her first short film De este mundo, received the best short film award at the Guanajuato Film Festival. It was considered the best Mexican short of the year by the Mexican Chamber of Film Industry. Her graduation short film, 400 bags, was selected for the Editing Studio of the Berlinale Talents and received different awards around the world. It was also nominated as Best Short by the Mexican Academy of Cinematic Arts (Ariel) in 2015 and was a finalist of the Student Academy Awards in that same year.
The script of her first feature Sin señas particulares was written with the grant Young Artists of the Mexican Fund for the Arts (FONCA). The project later received funds from FOPROCINE (Mexican Fund for the Production of Quality Cinema) and recently post-production funds from EFICINE. The film received the work in progress award of the San Sebastián Film Festival.
In 2018 Fernanda received a scriptwriting grant from FONCA, with which she is writing her next feature, Rambler.
Fernanda is founding partner of the production companies ENAGUAS CINE and CORPULENTA with which she has produced the films Plastic (by Ricardo Soto, 2015, developed in Locarno’s filmmakers Academy) and “The darkest days of us” (by Astrid Rondero, 2017, supported by Tribeca’s Latin America Fund and Berlinale Talents Script Station, nominated as best first feature and best actress by the Mexican Academy of Cinematic Arts 2019). She is also the producer of the documentary “Dear Ana”, currently in post-production, by renowned director Alejandra Sánchez.
November, 7th 2020. 9.30 pm
Cine Estudio del Círculo de Bellas Artes
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Section: Competitive
Year of Production: 2020
Running Time: 105’
Countries: Mexico and Spain
Languages: Spanish
Director: Fernanda Valadez
Screenplay: Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero
Cast: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas and Juan Jesús Varela
Production: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez, Jack Zagha and Yossy Zagha
Productions Companies: Corpulenta, FOPROCINE, Avanti Pictures, EnAguas Cine and Nephilim Producciones
International Sales: ALPHA VIOLET
Main Festivals and awards: Winner of the Work In Progress Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic, and the Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay at Sundance
