Past Successful Graduates
Luis Estrada
School: National School of Film Arts / National Autonomous University of Mexico (ENAC/UNAM)Field of Studies: DIRECTION
Website Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Estrada_(director)
Major Achievements: He won the 2011 Ariel Award for Best Picture for Hell
Herod's Law (original Spanish title La ley de Herodes) is a 1999 Mexican comedy film, it's a political satire of corruption in Mexico and the long-ruling PRI party. The film won the Ariel Award for Best Picture from the Mexican Academy of Film. Un mundo maravilloso ("A Wonderful World") is a 2006 Mexican comedy fairy tale film, a "spiritual sequel" to La ley de Herodes; it's a political satire about Vicente Fox Quesada's government and its neo-liberal doctrine. El Infierno (English: Hell) is a 2010 Mexican crime film following the line of La ley de Herodes. The film is a political satire about drug trafficking, organized crime, and the Mexican Drug War. The film has been a critical and commercial success in Mexico and was nominated for the 25th Goya Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. The Perfect Dictatorship (Spanish: La dictadura perfecta) is a 2014 Mexican comedy political satire film. It was released on October 16, 2014 and it will represent Mexico at the 2015 Goya Awards.
