Adriiana Trujillo (Tijuana, Mexico)
Director and screenwriter. Obtained a Masters in Creative Documentary from the Barcelona Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) and her B.A. in Communications from the Baja California Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California). She has collaborated with independent production companies such as ZU33, Nanuk, and Zona de Obras. Her work has been screened in television channels such as Barcelona TV, TV2, Canal 11, and KPBS, as well as several festivals and forums such as Barcelona Visual Sound, inEdit Fest, San Diego Latino Film Fest, Festival Internacional de cine y TV de mujeres, Moctezuma-Latina, Buenos Aires Film Festival, Proyecta Aragón, and in locations including the Mexican Culture Institute in Washington D.C, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Mexico’ s National Film Library, and the Caixa Forum in Barcelona.

She has taught courses, seminars and workshops with the Joaquín Roncal Foundation and the Zaragoza Historical Center, the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Universidad Iberoamericana Noroeste, BorDocs Documentary Forum, and the Tijuana Cultural Center. She has coordinated educational and audiovisual media projects such as Polen Project and On the Other Side of the Border in Tijuana, Mexico, Espacio Documental y Polen in Zaragoza, Spain, and Teen Producers Project in San Diego, U.S.

Her work has been part of such collective exhibitions as: Proyecto Cívico 2009, (ready)Media: the Archaeology of media and invention in Mexico at the Alameda Art Laboratory in 2009, FONCA’s 20 year Retrospective at the Vasconcelos Library at the Women’s Museum (MUMA) 2009, La Selecta 2008 art cooperative in Quito, Ecuador, Urban Diagnostics 2004, ARCO Fair Madrid 2005, and LARVA Collective 2003. In 2002 she received 1st place at the National Experimental Video Contest. Since 2003 she has Co-Directed Bordocs Documentary Forum, a biyearly festival that focuses on non-fiction film and video.

She has been awarded scholarships from the National Artistic Education Program CONACULTA-INBA-CENART (2002), PACMYC (2004 and 2007), Study Abroad FONCA (2004-05) and Young Creators (2007-2008). In 2008 she obtained the support of DOCSDF-IMCINE’s Documentary Project Development and in 2009 she won FOPROCINE-IMCINE’s Production Stimulus. In 2010 she received a scholarship from the Baja California Artistic Creation Stimulus Program in the Creators with Trajectory category.

She is currently professor and coordinator of Documentary Media and Visual Anthropology at the School of Humanities of the Baja California Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California). She is also a teacher at Media Arts Center San Diego, and is directing the documentary film Félix with the support of FONCA and IMCINE.

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Itzel Martinez (Tijuana, Mexico)
Director, screenwriter and photographer. Obtained her B.A. in Communications from the Baja California Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California). She has taken multiple courses and workshops in research and communications, as well as visual arts with teachers from around the world. She is a member of independent production company Polen Audiovisual where she co-directs BorDocs Documentary Forum in Tijuana and San Diego. For three years she taught Documentary Photography and Journalism and worked as a Cultural Studies through Audiovisual Production at the Baja California Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California). She has developed several documentary production, cultural promotion, and photography workshops in Tijuana and Xalapa. From 1997 to 1999 she was part of the Special Investigations Department for the newspaper El Mexicano, where she carried out journalistic and photographic reports.

In the field of the arts, she has been part of several collective exhibitions, among which the following stand out: Encuentro entre Dos Mares Bienal São Paulo-Valencia (Valencia 2007), Tijuana Organic (Manchester and London 2006), Insite 05, Prácticas Artísticas en el Dominio Público (Tijuana-San Diego), Tijuana la Tercera Nación in ARCO 05 (Madrid), Tijuana en Zaragoza (Spain 2005), LARVA (Tijuana and Monterrey 2004), BC-3 Nueva Fotografía en Baja California (Mexico City and Guanajuato, 2003), Spring Reverb (San Diego 2003), Diagnósticos Urbanos (Tijuana 2002).

She has been participated as guest presenter in diverse discussion and analysis tables across the country. Her photographs have been published in the Imagining Ourselves anthology, promoted by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco.

The documentaries she has directed, Salón de Baile La Estrella (La Estrella Ballroom, 2001), Ciudad Recuperación (Recovery City 2005) and Que Suene la Calle (Let the Street be Heard 2006) have been included in film festivals, art exhibitions and research seminars in several countries including: International Documentary Film Festival Ámsterdam (Netherlands 2006), Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (Mexico 2006), Gira Documental Ambulante (Mexico 2007), Latin American Film Festival Ultrech (Netherlands 2007), VIVA 13th Spanish and Latin Film Festival (Manchester 2007), Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival (Norway 2007), Sguardi Altrove Film Festival (Milan 2007), Festival Internacional de Mujeres en el Cine y la TV (Mexico 2006), among others.

Imagining Ourselves
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José Inerzia (Zaragoza, España).

Audio and video producer and post-producer. He has been involved in audiovisual media projects during the last nine years.

He collaborates with the Media Arts Center San Diego (USA) teaching audiovisual production workshops. He organizes FEEDBACK: Sound Creation Workshops, where he has designed and taught courses for such institutions as Universidad Iberoamericana del Noroeste and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. He also collaborates with other institutions such as San Diego State University, the Barcelona Autonomous University, Citilab Cornella, the CIC Museum in Mexicali, and Rennes 2 University in France. He was awarded a two year scholarship by the Department of Education in Aragon, Spain, working in research for Information and Communication Technologies (TIC).

As producer he has collaborated in several projects, such as Revolution << Rewind (Polen, Mexico 2010), Antropotrip (Jose Luis Martin, Mexico 2010), BorDocs (Polen, Mexico 2009), and Cuerpo y Diálogo (Polen, Mexico 2009). He also worked as production manager for the Brown Bike music video (Nortec Collective, Mexico 2008).

His postproduction work includes video editing and motion graphics for Revolution << Rewind (Polen, Mexico 2010), Divya (Polen, USA 2010) and he was in charge of conceptualizing and editing all the videos in the 2009 installment of BorDocs Documentary Forum (Polen, Mexico), aside from developing sound design for Medellín: ¿Por qué te has convertido en un objeto? (Patricia Montoya, Colombia-USA 2009), St. Jacques and The Z's (both by Generic Pictures, Mexico 2009), among others. He was in charge of audio mastering for the documentary film De l’autre côté de la ligne (Les Films De L’Autre Côte, France 2008). He was also part of the musical composition and recording for Isi Disi 2: Alto Voltaje (Lolafilms, Spain 2006).

He has worked as cameraman, soundman and post-producer for such production companies as 1st Strike Creative, Obtura, 1159 Creative, YonkeArt, and Castro Studio.

He is currently producing the documentary films Félix, coproduced by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE), and Skin Destination.

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Cuerpo y Diálogo
Antropotrip: Live Cinema