Antonino Isordia

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). 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.

• Name — Antonino Isordia Llamazares • Born — 30 April 1973 • Birthplace — Xilitla, San Luis Potosí • Other Names — Antonio Isordia • Occupation — Film maker and documentary film maker • Years Active — 1992present

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 — Run time (min.) — Notes • Sangre de tu sangre — 1992 — director • Discurso de alcohol para una hija adormecida — 1994 — director • El — 1996 — 7 — director and writer of this short documentary • El — 1997 — sound director on film directed by Beto Gómez • El — 1998 — 20 — director of this drama Shown at the Rencontres Henri Langlois 23rd International Film Schools Festival in Poitiers, France (2000) • Descenso — 2000 — 20 — director and writer of this documentary Nominated for Ariel Award for Documentary Short in 2003 First 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 • La — 2003 — 60 — sound on documentary directed by Everardo González • El — 2004 — 44 — director of this television documentary about Miguel Ramos Arizpe • 1973 — 2005 — 96 — producer, director, and writer Nominated for Ariel Award for Documentary Feature in 2006 Shown 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 • Los — 2008 — 90 — director and cinematographer of this documentary World premiere at the 5th FICCO festival in Mexico City (FebruaryMarch 2008) • Querétaro, Corazón del Barroco — 2008 — 46 — director of this television program • En los — 2010 — 90 — sound engineer on this documentary directed by Daniel Goldberg Lerner • Borreguito — 2010 — 10 — director and writer Winner 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)

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.