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Un embrujo | Under a Spell (1999)  Format: 35 mm Length: 85 min. Credits: Director: Carlos Carrera; Screenplay: Carlos Carrera and Martín Salinas; Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto; Cast: Blanca Guerra, Mario Zaragoza, Daniel Acuña, Luisa Hertas and Gerardo Campbell A story set in the 1920s about the influence of magic and Mayan myths on an adolescent and his friends, his love for his teacher and the destiny that leads him away from his dreams. Awards: Jury Prize, Best Photography, San Sebastian Festivals: San Sebastián/Toronto/Sundance/Muestra de Cine Mexicano/Taos/Chicago Latino Film Festival/Fribourg, Switzerland/Cinema Novo Festival, Belgium Distribution Info: IMCINE
Tepic No. 40 Col. Roma Sur México, DF 06760 Tel: 525-584-7283 Fax: 525-564-4187  Selected Works Film El crimen del Padre Amaro | The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)
Un embrujo | Under a Spell (1999) Sin remitente | Without a Sender (1994) El héroe | The Hero (1994) La vida conyugal | Conjugal Life (1992) La mujer de Benjamín | Benjamins Woman (1990) Malayerba nunca muerde | Weed (1988) Accomplishments Carlos Carrera created his first film in Super 8 at the age of 13. He worked as an assistant director in theater and as an illustrator and sketch artist in the press and film before directing his own films. His work has been screened at numerous film festivals around the world, among them Amiens, Trieste, Toronto and Sundance. His short animated film El héroe won the Palme dOr for Best Short Film at Cannes. El crimen del Padre Amaro was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category. He has received several Ariels (including Best Screenplay, Best Film and Best Director) and the Coral Award at the Havana Film Festival, among other honors. Carrera studied communications at the Universidad Iberoamericana and film at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC).
Education Film, Training Center for Cinematography (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica), Mexico City
Communication Sciences, Iberoamericana University News November 2005 Carlos Carrera received a $10,000 prize honoring his work in film from the José
Cuervo Foundation at the Morelia International Film Festival in October. Mexico March - April 2005 Carlos Carreras recent animated short about intolerance De raiz | From
the Roots screened at the Guadalajara Film Festival
in March. The
festival also featured another animated film by Carrera, Malayerba
Nunca Muerde | Weed, in which a city-dweller cuts off a
policemans ear
to use as a trophy. Mexico January - February 2005 Carlos Carreras recent animated short about intolerance De raiz | From
the Roots screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival this
winter.
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