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DIRECTOR

I'm interested in the mind and its functioning. Almost all my projects have a message, a mission, either share other people experiences, create awareness or give a message to reflect on.

As an independent filmmaker in a country like Mexico, it's been a really big challenge to complete each film, even though efforts are made to improve opportunities, until 2013 only 16% of the filmmakers managed to make the second film, and only 6% of them were women according to the IMCINE yearbook.

Independent films that are not associated with Institutions are poorly promoted, so it's even harder to make public this kind of product. However, my films have reached places I never imagined, they have helped incarcerated people, they've been used to teach in schools, they've given power and voice to so many people. Plays and puppets shows have been staged in Argentina and New York based in my films. That's the mission for me as a director: to move, surprise, help, extend a virtual hand to those who are ready and create a better world using the imagination.

So, if you have something to tell, let's work!

Mtra. Natalia Armienta Oikawa

Mexican producer, director and screenwriter, graduated from ITESO and the Polytechnic of Barcelona, has worked in television with Discovery Channel, Endemol and BBC in programs such as Big Brother and Ciberkids. In 2002 she was awarded the honorable mention in the 2nd national scriptwriting competition "el cine en corto". Scriptwriter of the romantic comedy "Seven Years of Marriage" which was part of Netflix America.

Her Opera Prima filmed in Wester Sahara "Compaz de arena" won two awards in Chile, was in 32 international festivals and opened the environmental film summit of the COP 16. She was nominated for the Rockefeller fellowship and was awarded with Creators with a Trajectory Scholarship for the documentary "Culpables de Inocencia” won the 5th Social and Human Rights Film Fest Chile, and nominated for best documentary in Oaxaca.

"Spilling Salt" a co-production between Mexico and Bolivia, supported by FONCA’S program of promotion of projects and co-investments and Canon Mexicana, achieved 90 festivals, 17 awards, 11 nominations and the pre-selection of the Fenix awards considered the Latin prelude to the Oscars. She has been Professor and Jury of IMCINE, Meters New York and Eficine and was a member of WIFT Mexico, and Ecolens India Org. As a writer she has won national and international calls publishing in Mexico, Spain and Turkey, also participated in the 8th LabGuión of the IBERmedia program. She is currently participating as script advisor in the film "The Rising", an Irish/United States co-production, and is preparing the production of a feature film with Nexflix International.