Ernesto Contreras
Screenwriter, Film director
1969 –
Who is Ernesto Contreras?
Ernesto Contreras is a Mexican film director and screenwriter.
Graduate 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-invited.
In 2007, Párpados azules, his first feature-film received the Best Iberoamerican Film and Script awards, as well as the Mezcal Award of the Young Jury in the XXII Guadalajara International Film Festival. He was later nominated for the Camera d’Or of the 60th Cannes Film Festival competing in the official selection of the 46th International Critics' Week. In September of that same year, he received a Special Mention in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and he also received the National University Distinction Award in Artistic Creation. In 2008, the Sundance Film Festival and the Miami International Film Festival gave him both a Special Jury Prize, and he received the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best First Work.
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- Born
- Oct 17, 1969
Veracruz - Nationality
- Mexico
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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