Synopsis
Past and present meet when the filmmaker Natalia Almada returns some recordings on his great-grandfather Plutarco Elias Street, revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. From recordings of Alicia Calles, General moves between the memories of a daughter who deals with the historical portrait of his father and the weight of his legacy on contemporary Mexico.
Biography of filmmaker Natalia Almada
Natalia Almada (Mexico City, 1974) an American mother and Mexican father, succeeded with his first short, Perfect Memory water, an experimental 19-minute gem that competed at Sundance in 2002 and was awarded best short documentary at the Tribeca Fiom festval, and was awarded the gold plate in the Internatonal Film festval Chicago that year, Almada rebuilt the death of her sister two years, which occurred when she was just about months, and how his father and his mother faced the tragedy. In
Across (which competed in Tribeca in 2005) utlize the corrido as a pretext to approach illegal immigration to the United States and narcotráfco, two realities that are part of life cotdiana of Mexicans living in Sinaloa , state from which the family of the filmmaker. Across was the first feature documentary Natalia Almada sponsored by the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Tribeca All Access Program, the New York Foundaton Humanitas Arizona for the Arts Council.
CreaTV In 2005 he received a Capital Grant for his project últmo process General. Natalia Almada is the great granddaughter of the overall title: nothing less than Plutarco Elias Calles, president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. But also key Fgura the Mexican Revolution, founder of the National Revolutionary Party (the predecessor of the PRI) and "strongman" of the country until 1936. It
MacDowell Colony Fellow and a Guggenheim in 2008. Almada's work has appeared in the festval Sundance the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Biennial, INPUT and the Flaherty Seminar, and at universities, conferences and festval around the world. His documentaries have been broadcast on television through PBS, ARTE and VPRO. She graduated with a Master in Visual Arts in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
- Special Mention SANFIC, Santago of Chile.
- Best Documentary, 12th Film Las Americas, Austin, Texas.
- Coral Award, 31 International Film festval Latnoamericano, La Habana, Cuba.
- Director Best Documentary, Sundance Film Festival. Jacqueline Dennett
- Award for Best Director, International Documentary Association, Los Angeles.
General opens on December 3, 2010 in the best cinemas in the country.
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