Ignacio Ortíz (b. 1957, Oaxaca, Mexico) studied medicine at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and then film direction at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). He made his debut as a screenwriter with the animated film The Blue Dove (La paloma azul,1989), and started working with director Carlos Carrera with the screenplay for the successful film Benjamin's Woman (La mujer de Benjamín, 1990), which has been shown on Czech Television and in which he also took an acting role. His directorial debut, the short El hombre que no escucha boleros (1992), won a CCC competition that allowed him to make the full-length feature The Edge of the Earth (La orilla de la tierra, 1993). In addition to a screenplay award at the Nantes Festival in 1999, he won the FICC Prize at Karlovy Vary 2002 for his film Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles (Cuento de hadas para dormir cocodrilos, 2001). He has also worked for theatre and radio, and currently teaches screenwriting at the CCC.
MFF Karlovy Vary
