Antonino Isordia Llamazares (born 30 April 1973 in Xilitla, San Luis Potosí) is a Mexican film and documentary director known for making documentary films in a more cinematic style. His films have been shown at International Film Festivals and received awards in his native Mexico, Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. He has had a documentary feature film and a documentary short each nominated for Ariel Awards.
Isordia is a graduate of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica film school in Mexico City. He also attended the Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin, Germany in 2005. His most notable films are 1973 (2005) and Los Niños Devoran Lobos (Kids Devour Wolves, 2008). His films and documentaries have won the Silver Goddess Mexican Award and the JVC award of the Guadalajara International Film Festival. He won an award for Best Video Documentary at the Valdivia International Film Festival in Valdivia, Chile in 2001 for Descenso (Descent).Anexo:Ganadores del Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (Spanish wikipedia) 1973 appeared at the Seminci Film Festival in Valladolid, Spain. In Variety Robert Koehler wrote of Isordia's work from the Palm Springs International Film Festival that:
The subject matter of Los Niños Devoran Lobos, violence among youths, was considered important enough that the rights were picked up for broadcast in 2008 on Tr3s in Mexico and MTV Latin America in Central America and several South American countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He directed a brief animated introduction to the first Cinema Planeta Film Festival held in Cuernavaca, Morelos in 2009. He then produced a similar animated short, that was directed by Carlos Armella, which served as an introduction to the second Cinema Planeta Film Festival held in 2010.
Works In addition to directing documentaries, Antonino Isordia (also credited as Antonio Isordia) has worked on film sound, sound recording, production, and screenplay writing.
+ List of films and television programs Title Year Runtime(min.) Notes Sangre de tu sangre 1992 director Discurso de alcohol para una hija adormecida 1994 director 1996 7 director and writer of this short documentary 1997 sound director on film directed by Beto Gómez 1998 20 director of this dramaShown at the Rencontres Henri Langlois 23rd International Film Schools Festival in Poitiers, France (2000) Descenso 2000 20 director and writer of this documentaryNominated for Ariel Award for Documentary Short in 2003First Prize, IV International Film Schools Festivals, Buenos Aires (July 2000)Jury's special prize, Mexico City Film Festival (October 2000)Shown at the Guadalajara International Film Festival Por si no te vuelvo a ver 2000 97 sound engineer on this comedy film Tierra menonita 2000 58 sound on documentary 2003 60 sound on documentary directed by Everardo González 2004 44 director of this television documentary about Miguel Ramos Arizpe 1973 2005 96 producer, director, and writerNominated for Ariel Award for Documentary Feature in 2006Shown at the 3rd Festival International de Cine de Morelia (October 2005)Shown at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (January 2006)Shown at the Riverside International Film Festival (2006) Hasta el último trago... corazón! 2005 100 sound on documentary directed by Beto Gómez Tepeyolotl, corazón del cerro 2005 30 sound engineer on documentary directed by Miguel Ángel García Retratos de la educación (I & II) 2006 45 producer, codirector, and cowriter of this two part television documentary Sonora, Alma de frontera 2007 45 director of this television documentary about the State of Sonora 2008 90 director and cinematographer of this documentaryWorld premiere at the 5th FICCO festival in Mexico City (FebruaryMarch 2008) Querétaro, Corazón del Barroco 2008 46 director of this television program 2010 90 sound engineer on this documentary directed by Daniel Goldberg Lerner Borreguito 2010 10 director and writerWinner of a Prize for Fiction at the 10th National Competition for Short Film in Mexico City (6 June 2010)Shown at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (March 2011)Shown at the Cannes Court Métrage short film corner (1122 May 2011)
Later work and recent projects In 2016, Isordia participated as one of the directors of the collaborative environmental documentary Nahui Ollin, sol de movimiento, a film that brings together multiple perspectives on the effects of climate change in Mexico and was presented in international documentary film cycles.
In 2019, he wrote and directed At’Anii’ (Tu amante), his first narrative feature film, spoken primarily in the Téenek language. The film was developed as part of a filmmaking workshop with communities from the Huasteca Potosina region and premiered at the 34th Guadalajara International Film Festival, where it competed in the Mezcal Award for fiction. It was later screened at the Cineteca Alameda in San Luis Potosí.
His documentary 1973, developed over several decades, has continued to be screened at film festivals and cultural events, including its presentation at the 24th Macabro International Horror Film Festival in Mexico City in 2025, reflecting the continued relevance of his early work.
References
External links Anexo:Ganadores del Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (Spanish Wikipedia)