Director
Aarón Sánchez Rubio
Born 1995
Aarón Sánchez Rubio, a graduate from Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, has directed 3 short films. He has studies in Narrative and Cinematographic Editing by the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba and will be part of the Generation 28 of the regular film course of the EICTV. Mar de Fierro was presented at the Cortitos from Shorts Mexico Festival in 2016 in different venues in Mexico including the Cineteca Nacional. His second short film, Sombra, was in collaboration with the audiovisual artist Takami Nakamoto in which he documented his artistic residency in Mexico for more than a month. The material was visualized in different independent venues in Mexico and was part of the first edition of the Bogotá Music Video Festival. Xhu, his most recent material tells the story of the inhabitants of communities such as Juchitán, San Mateo del Mar and Salina Cruz hours after the earthquake of September 7, 2017. Xhu has been selected in the Guanajuato International Film Festival as part of the official selection.
