Alicia Segovia Juárez

Alicia Segovia Juárez has a degree in Communications. She graduated with honors as a film director from the University Center for Film Studies (C.U.E.C. - U.N.A.M) with her film “Jerusalem”. She has written and directed several short films, documentaries and fiction, which have been screened in national and international festivals such as the Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival 2014, the São Paulo International Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival and the Film Academy Vienna Film Festival, among others. Her work has also received awards such as Special Award Studio 5 de Mayo at the 11th Morelia International Film Festival 2014; the Best Film Award at the AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival 2014 in Toronto, Canada; an Ariel nomination in 2011 by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences; the London Film Academy Scholarship at the International Film Festival Expresión en Corto 2010.

Born: in León, Guanajuato, México