Lucía Gajá

Lucía Gajá

Mexican filmmaker trained in Directing at CUEC (now ENAC), specialized in documentary cinema. She has been nominated eight times for the Ariel Award, receiving it in 2005 for her short film Soy. Her debut feature Mi vida dentro and her second feature Batallas íntimas earned national and international awards, the latter having a strong impact on the discussion of domestic violence both in Mexico and abroad. She is currently working on the post-production of Vidas en la orilla. She has served on project selection committees (FOPROCINE, National System of Art Creators), been a jury member at film festivals, and received fellowships from several programs, including FONCA. She is a member of AMACC and of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the United States. In addition, she combines her creative work with teaching at CCC and ENAC. In 2012, she received the National University Award for Young Academics in the area of Creation and Extension of Culture.

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Lucía Gajá Movies

  • 2009
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    Corto libre

    Corto libre

    5 2009 HD

    Mexican feature film

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  • 2015
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    Intimate Battles

    Intimate Battles

    6.333 2015 HD

    Its the story of five women from different countries who were victims of domestic violence and their struggle to face it and survive it. It will be an approach to this complex and extensive problem pretending to transcend the typical and stereotyped approaches.

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  • 2015
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    Intimate Battles

    Intimate Battles

    6.333 2015 HD

    Its the story of five women from different countries who were victims of domestic violence and their struggle to face it and survive it. It will be an approach to this complex and extensive problem pretending to transcend the typical and stereotyped approaches.

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  • 2007
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    My Life Inside

    My Life Inside

    7.182 2007 HD

    Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her family, and the helplessness of being imprisoned in a foreign country make Rosa’s story an example of the hard life of Mexican migrants in the United States.

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  • 2007
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    My Life Inside

    My Life Inside

    7.182 2007 HD

    Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her family, and the helplessness of being imprisoned in a foreign country make Rosa’s story an example of the hard life of Mexican migrants in the United States.

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  • 2007
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    My Life Inside

    My Life Inside

    7.182 2007 HD

    Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and then taken to trial. This film demonstrates how the judicial process, the verdict, the separation from her family, and the helplessness of being imprisoned in a foreign country make Rosa’s story an example of the hard life of Mexican migrants in the United States.

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  • 2017
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    Missing

    Missing

    1 2017 HD

    An allegory about the kidnapping of 43 male students in Iguala, Mexico which took place in September 2014: "They buried us, but they didn't know we were seeds."

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  • 1970
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    Graciela Iturbe

    Graciela Iturbe

    1 1970 HD

    Documentary about the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbe

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  • 2007
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    Cobrador: In God We Trust

    Cobrador: In God We Trust

    3.8 2007 HD

    Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.

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  • 2016
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    Ayotzinapa 26

    Ayotzinapa 26

    1 2016 HD

    26 filmmakers bring their own vision in order to find the truth about the missing students of Ayotzinapa.

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  • 2001
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    Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

    Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

    7.8 2001 HD

    Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.

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  • 2024
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    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    1 2024 HD

    In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

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  • 2024
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    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    1 2024 HD

    In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

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  • 2024
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    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    1 2024 HD

    In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

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  • 2024
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    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    1 2024 HD

    In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

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  • 2024
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    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    1 2024 HD

    In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

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  • 2024
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    The Doubt According to the Archives

    The Doubt According to the Archives

    1 2024 HD

    In an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.

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  • 2025
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    Vidas en la orilla

    Vidas en la orilla

    1 2025 HD

    20 years after "Mi vida dentro," filmmaker Lucía Gajá revisits Rosa Estela Olvera Jiménez's case, a Mexican migrant accused of killing a minor. The sequel shows how her family and social groups helped restore her unjustly taken freedom.

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