Ángeles Cruz

Originally from the Mixteca Oaxaqueña, Ángeles Cruz is an actress, director and screenwriter. She has participated in films such as Traición by Ignacio Ortiz; La ira o el Seol by Juan Mora and El violin by Francisco Vargas. As the leading role of Tamara y la Catarina (2016, directed by Lucía Carreras), she won the Silver Colón for Best Performance at the Huelva Ibero-American Festival and was nominated for the Ariel Award 2018. She was nominated for the Guldbaggen of the Swedish Film Academy as Best Actress for La hija del Puma (1994, dir. Ulf Hulberg). Her promising foray as a filmmaker and screenwriter was in 2012 with the short film La tiricia or how to cure sadness, produced by the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, with which she won the Ariel for Best Short Film in 2013, as well as the Palmita that awards the Tour of French Cinema, La Diosa de Plata, the Gender Award in Lambayaque Peru, special mentions in Huelva, etc. In 2013 she wrote and directed the short film La carta, also produced by IMCINE, and received a nomination for Best Mexican Short Film at the Ariel Awards in 2015, as well as the Audience Award in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles, California.

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