Tropic of Cancer

Trópico de cáncer
Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra
Mexico
2004
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Description

Tropic of Cancer is a portrait of human beings surviving off of nature, taking a cyclical approach in which nothing is more important than finding food from the only source at hand: the ecosystem.

Awards and festivals

- Sundance Film Festival. USA (2005)
- FICCO - Best Director. Mexico City (2005)
- International Cinéma du Réel Festival, Paris - Joris Ivens Award for Best Young Filmmaker. France (2005)
- Ariel Awards - Best Documentary Debut Film (2005)
- Morelia International Film Festival - Best Documentary (2004)
- First Kinoki Festival. Mexico (2004)

Biography of the director

Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra (Mexico City, 1977). Director, editor and cinematographer. His career began as a self-taught photographer on various trips he took around Mexico and throughout the world. At the age of 17, he won the ACCU / Unesco photography prize in Japan. He later studied at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City.

In 2004 he made
Trópico de Cáncer (Tropic of Cancer), a naturalistic portrait of how the inhabitants of the San Luis Potosí desert struggle to survive. The film earned various awards (Joris Ivens Prize at the Cinéma du Reél International Documentary Festival, Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences, Eye Award at the FIC Morelia 2004, Best Documentary at FICCO, among others), and participated in the Critics' Week at Cannes. In 2007 he founded Tecolote Films and, along with the Hubert Bals Fund and Visions Sud Est, he produced Los Herederos (The Inheritors), a portrait of Mexican peasant children filmed in 8 regions of Mexico. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival, participated in the official section of the Berlin Film Festival and was selected to the Bright Future section in Rotterdam, in addition to earning critical acclaim and winning numerous awards. Polgovsky was invited to lead the Robert Flaherty seminar in 2010 and has garnered over 30 international awards in the categories of editing, photography and directing.

Mitote (Mexican Ritual) (2012) premiered at the Rome Film Festival and won the Ariel Award for Best Documentary Film, while the film Resurrección (Resurrection) (2016) participated in several international festivals, including Cinéma du Réel and the Morelia International Film.

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Friday 23

  • 19:00 h
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Saturday 24

  • 21:00 h
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Data sheet
Director
Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra
Language
Spanish
Screenplay
Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra
Cinematography
Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra
Editing
Eugenio Polgovsky Ezcurra
Sound
Isabel Muñoz Cota
Production company
Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, A.C.
Contact
Claudia Prado - Centro de Capacitacion Cinematográfica, A.C. - +52 55 4155 0090 - divulgacion@elccc.com.mx
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