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Antonino Isordia Llamazares (born 30 April 1973 in Xilitla, San Luis Potosí) 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 (2005) and Los Niños Devoran Lobos (Kids Devour Wolves, 2008). 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 (Descent). 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:
Particularly in opening section, 1973 presents an astonishing, intensely complex visual and audio design that sets a new standard for cinematically-stylish non-fiction and transforms the standard talking-head docu.
The subject matter of Los Niños Devoran Lobos, violence among youths, was considered important enough that the rights were picked up for broadcast in 2008 on Tr3s in Mexico and MTV Latin America in Central America and several South American countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He directed a brief animated introduction to the first Cinema Planeta Film Festival held
in Cuernavaca, Morelos in 2009. He then produced a similar animated short, that was directed by Carlos Armella, which served as an introduction to the second Cinema Planeta Film Festival held in 2010.
Works
In addition to directing documentaries, Antonino Isordia (also credited as Antonio Isordia) has worked on film sound, sound recording, production, and screenplay writing.
| Title | Year | Run time (min.) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sangre de tu sangre | 1992 | director | |
| Discurso de alcohol para una hija adormecida | 1994 | director | |
| café y la muerte, ElEl café y la muerte | 1996 | 7 | director and writer of this short documentary |
| agujero, ElEl agujero | 1997 | sound director on film directed by Beto Gómez | |
| último recuerdo de Leocadio, ElEl último recuerdo de Leocadio | 1998 | 20 | director of this drama Shown at the Rencontres Henri Langlois 23rd International Film Schools Festival in Poitiers, France (2000) |
| Descenso | 2000 | 20 | director and writer of this documentary Nominated for Ariel Award for Documentary Short in 2003 First Prize, IV International Film Schools Festivals, Buenos Aires (July 2000) Jury's special prize, Mexico City Film Festival (October 2000) Shown at the Guadalajara International Film Festival |
| Por si no te vuelvo a ver | 2000 | 97 | sound engineer on this comedy film |
| Tierra menonita | 2000 | 58 | sound on documentary |
| canción del pulque, LaLa canción del pulque | 2003 | 60 | sound on documentary directed by Everardo González |
| país roto, Las guerras de Miguel Ramos Arizpe, ElEl país roto, Las guerras de Miguel Ramos Arizpe | 2004 | 44 | director of this television documentary about Miguel Ramos Arizpe |
| 1973 | 2005 | 96 | producer, director, and writer Nominated for Ariel Award for Documentary Feature in 2006 Shown at the 3rd Festival International de Cine de Morelia (October 2005) Shown at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (January 2006) Shown at the Riverside International Film Festival (2006) |
| Hasta el último trago... corazón! | 2005 | 100 | sound on documentary directed by Beto Gómez |
| Tepeyolotl, corazón del cerro | 2005 | 30 | sound engineer on documentary directed by Miguel Ángel García |
| Retratos de la educación (I & II) | 2006 | 45 | producer, codirector, and cowriter of this two part television documentary |
| Sonora, Alma de frontera | 2007 | 45 | director of this television documentary about the State of Sonora |
| niños devoran lobos, LosLos niños devoran lobos | 2008 | 90 | director and cinematographer of this documentary World premiere at the 5th FICCO festival in Mexico City (February – March 2008) |
| Querétaro, Corazón del Barroco | 2008 | 46 | director of this television program |
| pasos de Abraham, En losEn los pasos de Abraham | 2010 | 90 | sound engineer on this documentary directed by Daniel Goldberg Lerner |
| Borreguito | 2010 | 10 | director and writer Winner of a Prize for Fiction at the 10th National Competition for Short Film in Mexico City (6 June 2010) Shown at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (March 2011) Shown at the Cannes Court Métrage short film corner (11 – 22 May 2011) |