José Permar

Mexican filmmaker born in South Baja California, graduated in Audio-visual Arts in the University of Guadalajara. Has worked as director, cinematographer and editor. Winner of the “Ariel“ (Mexican (...) Cinema Academy Awards) 2017, nominated to the Student Oscars Academy Awards and obtained a Special Mention of the Kplus Jury in Berlinale with his documentary short "Aurelia and Pedro". His others works, "Outside" (2015) and "Beast" (2016), have been awarded and exhibited in festivals like: Shorts Mexico, Morelia International Film Festival, Sao Paulo Latin-American Cinema Festival and IFSVF of Beijing Film Academy, among others. Now he is on the shooting of his first feature: "Off the Road", a project selected in the Docunexion Mexico - Germany program and supported by the Mexican Film Institute’s development program.