Antonino Isordia

Who is Antonino Isordia?

Antonino Isordia Llamazares is a Mexican film and documentary director known for making documentary films in a more cinematic style. His films have been shown at international film festivals and received awards in his native Mexico, Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. He has had a documentary feature film and a documentary short each nominated for Ariel Awards.

Isordia is a graduate of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica film school in Mexico City. He also attended the Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin, Germany in 2005. His most notable films are 1973 and Los Niños Devoran Lobos. His films and documentaries have won the Silver Goddess Mexican Award and the JVC award of the Guadalajara International Film Festival. He won an award for Best Video Documentary at the Valdivia International Film Festival in Valdivia, Chile in 2001 for Descenso. 1973 appeared at the Seminci Film Festival in Valladolid, Spain. In Variety Robert Koehler wrote of Isordia's work from the Palm Springs International Film Festival that: