El Chapo
2017
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Ernesto Contreras is a film and TV director who has won several awards, including the Ariel and the Sundance Audience Award. He has worked on projects such as Blue Eyelids, I Dream in Another Language, El Chapo, and Tengo que morir todas las noches.
- January 1, 1
- Director, Producer, Editor
- Veracruz, Mexico
- Ernesto Contreras
Ernesto Contreras (born 1969 in Veracruz, Veracruz) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Contreras graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM . His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best Short Film in 2004, for The non ...
Ernesto Contreras. Director: Párpados azules. Film director graduated from CUEC UNAM, now ENAC. He has received the Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on several occasions, he was nominated in 2007 for the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut feature Blue Eyelids and won the Sundance Audience Award in 2017 for I Dream in Another Language.
May 2, 2023 · As a director, this journey was challenging in its completion, working with the actors, the tone, the pace, but most importantly, the fantastic possibility that film provides to make a full connection with our audience. Ernesto Contreras, Director
Jan 31, 2017 · The Mexican director talks about creating a fictional indigenous language, the loss of identity, and the contrast between progress and culture in his third feature. The film follows a linguist who tries to document the Zikril language, spoken by only three elderly people in a rural community.
Ernesto Contreras Biography Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1969, he is a graduate from the Center for Studies in Communication Sciences and later from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
95 minutes [1] Country. Mexico. Language. Spanish. Where the Tracks End ( Spanish: El último vagón, lit. 'The last wagon') is a 2023 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Ernesto Contreras from a screenplay by Javier Peñalosa. [2] Starring Adriana Barraza and Kaarlo Isaacs. [3] It is based on the novel of the same name by Ángeles Doñantes.
