Juan Carlos Rulfo Aparicio (born January 24, 1964 in Mexico City) is a
Mexican screenwriter and director and the son of author Juan Rulfo. He
has written, produced, and photographed several films. He is married
to Valentina Leduc Navarro, a Mexican director.Juan Nepomuceno Carlos
Pérez Rulfo Aparicio, the son of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo and
Clara Aparicio de Rulfo, studied film at the Autonomous Metropolitan
University in Xochimilco and at the Cinematographic Training Center in
Mexico City. Due to the heritage his father left him, Juan Carlos has
naturally known how to translate cinematographic narrative from rural
Mexico to his father's workings of literature while making a name for
himself and his talent in the shadow of his father.His first film was
his thesis for his graduation from film school and was called
Grandfather Cheno and Other Stories. This documentary tells the story
of his grandfather and fits it in with his father's story Tell Them
Not to Kill Me.Rulfo's movie In The Pit won the Grand Jury Prize for
an International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. He also
won the Ariel Awards for Best Editing and Best First Work for his
movie Del Olvido al No me Acuerdo, and was nominated for Best
Direction and Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Rulfo
has also won at the Goya Awards, the Guadalajara International Film
Festival, the Havana Film Festival, the Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival, the Montréal World Film Festival.
Mexican screenwriter and director and the son of author Juan Rulfo. He
has written, produced, and photographed several films. He is married
to Valentina Leduc Navarro, a Mexican director.Juan Nepomuceno Carlos
Pérez Rulfo Aparicio, the son of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo and
Clara Aparicio de Rulfo, studied film at the Autonomous Metropolitan
University in Xochimilco and at the Cinematographic Training Center in
Mexico City. Due to the heritage his father left him, Juan Carlos has
naturally known how to translate cinematographic narrative from rural
Mexico to his father's workings of literature while making a name for
himself and his talent in the shadow of his father.His first film was
his thesis for his graduation from film school and was called
Grandfather Cheno and Other Stories. This documentary tells the story
of his grandfather and fits it in with his father's story Tell Them
Not to Kill Me.Rulfo's movie In The Pit won the Grand Jury Prize for
an International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. He also
won the Ariel Awards for Best Editing and Best First Work for his
movie Del Olvido al No me Acuerdo, and was nominated for Best
Direction and Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Rulfo
has also won at the Goya Awards, the Guadalajara International Film
Festival, the Havana Film Festival, the Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival, the Montréal World Film Festival.
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