Alicia Calderón Torres

Portraits

of a Search

(2014) is her first documentary feature film. This project was

selected by IMCINE

to receive Guidance for the Development of Storylines and was

produced with the Fund for Quality Film Production FOPROCINE. In

2010, she participated in the Theory and Practice Workshop of

Documentary Filming and Postproduction, sponsored by AMBULANTE

and the Mexican Film Institute, where she was selected to direct the

short film A

Possible Dream.She

has worked as a journalist in written press, radio and television for

14 years. Her works have been published in Mexico’s main editorial

groups, such as Reforma

and Milenio,

as well as in international media, such as the Associated

Press agency

and the cultural channel NCI,

of the Association of Ibero-American Educational and Cultural

Television.She

has a bachelor in Communication Sciences and Techniques by the UNIVA,

with postgraduate studies in Communication, Social Change and

Development, at the Complutense University of Madrid. She has taught

at the bachelor in Communication of the ITESO,

the Jesuit university of Guadalajara. She is former grant holder of

the Ibero-American New Journalism Foundation, of the Knight Center

for Journalism, among others. She

is currently working on her second feature film documentary, in which

she has had the guidance of documentary filmmaker Tatiana Huezo in

the Development stage, as part of the workshops of the International

Film Festival in the Desert, held in Sonora.