Adrian Arce: Masters Degree in Media, Arts and Production, Film and Video Stream by the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) with a scholarship from the Council for Culture and the Arts of Mexico. Bachelors Degree in Social Communication by the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico (UAM). Director, producer, editor and cinematographer of different documentary and fiction projects such as ‘Voices of Guerrero’, which obtained, among other awards, the Jose Rovirosa Award for best documentary in 2004 and ‘Out of Focus’, screened in more than 30 international festivals and winner of the Best Mexican Documentary Award at the Short Shorts Mexico Film Festival 2014.
Adrian has worked in the production of different film festivals such as the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) and Mexico City’s International Contemporary Cinema Festival (FICCO). He’s also directed the castings for independent fiction features such as ‘Yo’ by Matias Meyer, ‘Mai morire’ by Enrique Rivero and ‘Malaventura’ by Michel Lipkes.
He is co-founder of the Homovidens Collective and the production house Kinomorfosis.
Adrian has also worked as an independent director and editor for different TV channels and production houses such as Fox/Plataforma, Clío/Televisa, ONCE TV and CANITEC/Solaris.
Among his documentary and fiction productions Adrian has produced the following films:
‘Metamorphosis’ (Documentary, 14 minutes, Mexico, 2016), ‘Out of Focus’ (Documentary, 36 minutes, Mexico, 2013), ‘El Ñero’s Trip’ (Fiction, 17 minutes, Australia, 2007), “Memoria en brasas” (Documentary, 72 minutes, Mexico, 2006), ‘Shooting Battle in Heaven’ (Documentary, 60 minutes, Mexico, 2006), ‘Voices of Guerrero’ (Documentary, 52 minutes, Mexico, 2004), “De la Merced a Chalma” (Documentary, 76 minutes, Mexico, 2003) and ‘Locked Souls’ (Fiction, 8 minutes, Australia, 2002).