Julián Hernández

Julian Hernandez got the attention of national and international film critics with his first movie A Thousand Clouds of Peace (Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor), with it he won the Teddy award in the Berlin Film Festival. In February 2008, Hernandez did it again and seduced the jury of Panorama in Berlinale who gave him his second Teddy for his latest long film Raging Sun, Raging Sky (Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo). His short film, Bramadero, was shown in the sixth Edition of FICM. The filmography of this Mexican director, who got his first award in the second Jornada de Cortometrajes for his work Por encima del abismo de la desesperación, sums up to 3 long films and 14 short ones. His movies are known for his peculiar approach to the cinematographic language in which he takes special care on aestethics. Many critics have compared his work with choreographies and praise his use of sequence shots.

He studied in Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC) and has credited his distinctive use of cinematographic language to the influences filmmakers such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Leonardo Favio, Robert Bresson and Alain Resnais had on him. Hernandez has also developed an important production carrer by creating Cooperativa Cinematográfica Morelos, which has supported 25 films in 20 years. —moreliafilmfest.com