Nicolasa Ruiz Mendoza

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BIOGRAPHIE

Nicolasa Ruiz (1991 Mexicali, Baja California), studied the Bachelor of Audiovisual Media at the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). She got a scholarship at PECDA during 2016-2017 to make her first documentary short film JR (FICUNAM ACIERTOS 2019), Best Documentary Short Film at the Festival del Puerto, Oaxaca 2019. She obtained the financial support of IMCINE (Apoyo a la Realización de Cortometrajes, Films By Region 2018-2019) for the production of her second documentary short film Obāchan, premiered in 2020 at the Visiones du Réel Film Festival. Her third project called My entrails are one of the most beautiful and strange things in the world, was selected in the category of episodic content of the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund at the Los Cabos International Film Festival, where she won the Art Kingdom award, and in 2020 she won the best script in ANIMASSIVO in the category From the north, the visible stories. With the latter also present at the International Conference CATAPULTA Production Market, FICUNAM 2021 and selected for the IFAL 2021 co-production market with France. From 2016 to 2020 she worked in Tijuana at the local production house Spécola, as a producer; and from 2020 to 2021 she worked at the production company La Corriente del Golfo, also in the production area. Since its foundation in 2020, Nicolasa Ruiz is part of the Artemisa collective, a group of women who, given the urgency of regulating work relationships in the audiovisual industry, created a conceptual tool with strong legal and educational turns to eradicate exclusion, discrimination and gender-based violence.

FILMOGRAPHIE