Ivonne Fuentes

Biography

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.