Directing
Lucía Gajá
Place of birth
Mexico City, México
Known for
Directing
Credits
12 titles
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 AMAC…
Known for
5.0Mexican feature film
Corto libre
2009
6.3Its 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.
Intimate Battles
2015
7.3Rosa 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.
My Life Inside
2007
NRIn an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.
The Doubt According to the Archives
2024
NRAn 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."
Missing
2017
Documentary about the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbe
Graciela Iturbe
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Behind the camera
5.0Mexican feature film
Corto libre
2009
6.3Its 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.
Intimate Battles
2015
6.3Its 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.
Intimate Battles
2015
7.3Rosa 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.
My Life Inside
2007
7.3Rosa 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.
My Life Inside
2007
NRIn an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.
The Doubt According to the Archives
2024
NRIn an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.
The Doubt According to the Archives
2024
NRIn an essay and archival intervention, questions arise about the images of the 1968 national strike council.
The Doubt According to the Archives
2024
NRAn 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."
Missing
2017
Documentary about the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbe
Graciela Iturbe
—
26 filmmakers bring their own vision in order to find the truth about the missing students of Ayotzinapa.
Ayotzinapa 26
2016
NR20 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.
Vidas en la orilla
2025
