Awards & Winners

Ernesto Contreras

Date of Birth 17-October-1969
Place of Birth Veracruz
(Veracruz, Mexico)
Nationality Mexico
Also know as Ernesto Contreras, director
Profession Film Director, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Film Editor
Ernesto Contreras is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Graduate from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM. His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best Short Film in 2004, for The non-invited. In 2007, Párpados azules, his first feature-film received the Best Iberoamerican Film and Script awards, as well as the Mezcal Award of the Young Jury in the XXII Guadalajara International Film Festival. He was later nominated for the Camera d’Or of the 60th Cannes Film Festival competing in the official selection of the 46th International Critics' Week. In September of that same year, he received a Special Mention in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and he also received the National University Distinction Award in Artistic Creation. In 2008, the Sundance Film Festival and the Miami International Film Festival gave him both a Special Jury Prize, and he received the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for Best First Work. Paralleling, he produced and coedited the feature documentary The Last Heroes of the Peninsula, by director José Manuel Cravioto, with whom he is currently codirecting a documentary on the Mexican rock band Café Tacvba’s 20th Anniversary.

Awards by Ernesto Contreras

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ernesto Contreras.

2011


Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award
Honored for : I Dream In Another Language

2008


Ariel Award for Best First Work
Honored for : Blue Eyelids

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Ariel Award for Best First Work Blue Eyelids

2004


Ariel Award for Best Short Fiction
Honored for : Los no invitados

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Ariel Award for Best Short Fiction Los no invitados