Julio HERNANDEZ-CORDON

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Julio Hernández Cordón
born in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, in 1975. Julio grew up in México, Guatemala and Costa Rica. He studied communications sciences at the Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala, and took the General Course in Movie Making at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, México. In 2006 he won the Cinergia prize to make his opera prima, Gasolina. In 2007 he won three awards with Gasolina at the San Sebastian Film Festival, in Cinema in Construction section: Industry prize, Casa de America prize and CICAE prize. In 2008, Gasolina won the Horizontes Latinos prize (better Latin-American movie), at the San Sebastián Film Festival. In 2008 his second full-length script Polvo, won the screenplay development fund in Amiens. Polvo is the history of the relationship between mother and son, in the context of a war that ended 12 years ago. He is also producing with his company Melindrosa Films young Guatemalan directors.
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