Within 21 activities. Morelia International Film Festival Within the framework of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage UNAM Film LibraryIn cooperation with the director’s family Paul Leduc And the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), through its program to promote Mexican cinema (FOCINE), presented the microsite Paul Leduc Collectionon Friday, October 27 in the hometown of Morelos at 11:00 am.
he Paul Leduc Collection It is the result of three years of preserving, indexing and digitizing thousands of documents: texts, photographs, press releases and posters, among others, which will henceforth be preserved in the Foundation’s Documentation Center. UNAM Film Library. In addition, all people interested in the work of this great director can view his digital version for free.
Construction project Paul Leduc Collection It appeared in 2020 thanks to the call to support the formation and preservation of film collections issued by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography. The final result, a free and open access virtual collection, was the result of archival work carried out by experts in cataloguing, preservation, document digitization, and programming and design work developed by a team. UNAM Film Library. This virtual collection aims to operationalize the director’s work, providing public access for open consultation, research, navigation and viewing of documents for publishing, academic and research purposes, at no cost. The ultimate goal is that access to the collection of documents and photographs that this director kept throughout his life enriches knowledge not only about the works of this creator, but also about the history of Mexican cinema.
Paul Leduc
He was born on March 11, 1942 in Mexico City. He has worked as a director, writer, producer, critic and film teacher. He studied architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, theater direction at the Seki Sano Theater Arts Workshop, television at the French Radio and Television (ORTF), and filmmaking at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris.
Returning to Mexico in 1967, he founded with Rafael Castañedo, Bertha Navarro And Alexis Grivas Cine 70 Collection. With Castanedo He co-directed 17 16mm short films for the Mexican Olympic Committee and three manifestos for the National Strike Council/1968, as well as co-founding, without an official affiliation, the Independent Cinema Group of Mexico in 1969.
His first movie Reid: Rebellious Mexico (Mexico, 1970) was screened at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 1972 Cannes International Film Festival, and won the French Critics’ Georges Sadoul Award for Best Foreign Film. Your movie Frida, living nature (Mexico, 1983) won eight Ariel Awards for Best Film, Direction, Screenplay, Photography, Editing, Actress, Supporting Actress, and Art Design. His last feature film was The Mosque: In God we trust (Mexico-Spain-Argentina-France-Brazil-United Kingdom, 2006), a film that was nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay, and won in the latter category for its brilliant adaptation of the work of Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca; The film also won the Best Editing Award at the 2006 Havana Film Festival and represented Mexico at the 2008 Goya Awards.
He was a professor of cinema at the UNAM Center for Cinema Studies (CUEC), the Cinema Training Center (CCC) and the International School of Film and Television for New Latin American Cinema. In 2013, Paul Leduc He has received the National Prize for the Arts and Sciences, and in 2016 he received a Golden Ariel Award for his career. He died on October 21, 2020.
he International Film Festival of the National Autonomous University of Mexico – FICUNAM, which will take place from June 13 to 20, 2024 in its fourteenth edition, will devote a retrospective to the great director Paul Leduc.
he Paul Leduc Collection Can be consulted at https://acervoleduc.filmoteca.unam.mx/
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