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Filmmaker · Mexico

Luis Mandoki

Luis Mandoki was born in Mexico City on 17 August 1954. He studied fine arts in San Francisco, then cinema in London, where his first short film was noticed. Back in Mexico, he made documentaries and short films for public cultural bodies and received the Ariel in 1980 for one of them. After a biographical film nominated for the Oscars, he worked for about fifteen years in Hollywood, then returned to Spanish-language cinema and to documentaries on the political life of his country.

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