7/2/07

Laura Amelia Guzmán Conde
Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on May 7th 1980, Laura Amelia Guzmán graduated from Altos de Chavón / The School of Design, where she studied fine arts and photography. After exhibiting in photography shows, she attended the International Film and Television School in Cuba, specializing in cinematography. During that period she photographed and directed several short films and documentaries; one of them, "Antesala" was selected in the International Competition at Cinema du Reel Film Festival.



Since 2004, she has lived in Mexico where she works with her husband Israel Cardenas, with whom she shares script, photography, production and direction credits in their first feature film "Cochochi" that had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Official Selection 2007 (Orizzonti Section). It won the Diesel Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award at the Miami and Toulouse Film Festivals and Fipresci Awards at Gijón and Toulouse Film Festivals. "Cochochi" has been screened at Rotterdam, Habana, Río de Janeiro, Jeonju, Gotteborg and Buenos Aires films festivals among others.

She is currently working on her second feature film "Jean Gentil" to be shot in the Dominican Republic, this project has the support of the Hubert Bals Fund and participated in august 2008 in the Open Doors Factory where the Locarno Film Festival, Visions Sud Est and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation awarded “Jean Gentil” a collaboration to the production.

4 comentarios:

Lidia Isaias dijo...

Laura e Israel les enviamos una gran felicitación por la participación de Cochochi en el Festival de Venecia.

Y esperamos verla pronto en proycección nacional.

¡ENHORABUENA!

Unknown dijo...

hola,

cuando se puede comprar la película en DVD?

saludos
verena

jpanama dijo...

Nos gustaria presentar su documental Cochochi en nuestro festival en Atlanta, Georgia, en Junio. La fecha limite para entregar los documentales es el 15 de Abril. Para mas informacion www.lacfilmfest.org
Gracias.
Janvieve

Ernesto Lehn dijo...

Hola Laura e Israel, me presento, soy Ernesto lehn, fotógrafo y documentalista. Primero que nada, muchas felicidades por Cochochi. Me gustaría compartir con ustedes mi corto documental sobre una historia en La Sierra Tarahumara, se llama Sikuelachi, escuela en medio deLa Sierra. El año pasado ganó el primer lugar el el concurso "La escuela en México' durante el festival Docsdf.

Acabo de volver de La Sierra, fuí a llevar una placa solar, que compré con el premio, para que la escuela tuviera luz en las noches.

El link al corto es: http://www.via69.com.mx/galerias/fotografos/lehn/video/sikuelachi.htm

Ojalá les guste, bueno, saludos. Ernesto