Draft:Fernanda Valadez

Fernanda Valadez is a Mexican director and producer, born in Guanajuato, Mexico, 1981. Graduate of Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC).

Biography
Fernanda Valadez was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1981. She is a Graduate of Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) and is a director and producer.

Filmography
Valadez's first short film “De este mundo" was considered the best Mexican short film of the year by the Mexican Chamber of Film Industry in 2010.

Her first feature “Sin señas particulares” (Identifying Features) was written with the grant Young Artists of the Mexican Fund for the Arts (FONCA). It received funds from FOPROCINE (Mexican Fund for the Production of Quality Cinema) and recently post production funds from EFICINE)

As a producer :

 * 2020 Identifying Features (producer)
 * 2017 The Darkest Days of Us (executive producer) / (producer)
 * 2015 Plástico (producer)
 * 2014 400 Maletas (Short) (producer)
 * 2011 En Aguas Quietas (Short) (producer)
 * 2011 Un Río (Short) (producer)
 * 2010 De este mundo

As a director :

 * 2020 Identifying Features
 * 2014 400 Maletas (Short)
 * 2010 De este mundo

As a writer :

 * 2020 Identifying Features
 * 2014 400 Maletas (Short) (writer)
 * 2010 De este mundo

As Second Unit Director or Assistant Director :

 * 2017 The Darkest Days of Us (second unit director)
 * 2010 Últimos pasajeros

As an editor:

 * 2020 Identifying Features
 * 2014 400 Maletas (Short)
 * 2010 De este mundo (Short)

Awards

 * “De este mundo” received best short film award at the Guanajuato Film Festival in 2010.


 * “400 bags” was selected for the Editing Studio of the Berlinale Talents and received different awards around the world. It was also nominated as Best Short by the Mexican Academy of Cinematic Arts (Ariel) in 2015 and was a finalist of the Student Academy Awards in that same year.


 * "Sin señas particulares” Identifying Features:


 * 1) received the work in progress award of the San Sebastián Film Festival
 * 2) Sundance Film Festival – Winner of Audience Award & Special Jury Award for Best Screenplay
 * 3) Mooov Film Festival – Youth Award
 * 4) PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize
 * 5) San Sebastian Film Festival – Horizontes Latinos Award, Spanish Cooperation Award
 * 6) Zurich Film Festival – Golden Eye Award for Best Film
 * 7) Morelia – Audience award, Best Actress Award & Best Film
 * 8) Thessaloniki – Golden Alexander for Best Film,
 * 9) Stockholm – Best Debut and Best Director Award
 * 10) Torino – Special Jury Prize & Best Actress Award
 * 11) Films From The South Norway – New Voices Award
 * 12) Laceno d’Oro Italy – Audience Award
 * 13) Gotham award for best international film