Eugenio Polgovsky
Directing
- Born
- June 29, 1977 · Mexico City, Mexico
- Died
- August 11, 2017 (age 40)
Eugenio Polgovsky (June 29, 1977 – August 11, 2017; Mexico City) was a Mexican filmmaker and visual artist. He worked as director, cinematographer, editor, sound designer and producer of his films. Polgovsky was known for the Mexican documentaries "Tropic of Cancer" ( Semaine de la Critique 2005) and Los Herederos "The Inheritors" (Mostra of Venice, Orrizontti 2008 & Berlinale Generation 2009).
He was the first filmmaker invited in the history of Trinity College, Cambridge, as Fellow Communer in Arts in 2016.
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Polgovsky was the founder of Tecolote Films in Mexico City (2004). He has received 4 Ariel Awards, (Mexican Academy Awards) and more than 20 International awards for his films, including the Joris Ivens Award in Cinema Du Réel, París 2005. He became a visionary, innovative and independent documentarist, and he brought an experimental spirit and a poetic eye to the medium of cinematography and worked closely and in a prolonged way with the communities whose stories and conditions he has sought to explore. His personal cinematography enchained with a meticulous and original editing explored the backgrounds of the Mexican reality, from the rural ancient world to the present of the mega city of Mexico. The MoMa of NY presented his film "Tropic of Cancer" as part of a selection of the region’s most innovative contemporary films.
Known for
Behind the camera17
- 2022Malintzin 17 Director, Director of Photography
- 2016Lightbyrinth Director
- 2016Resurrection Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Director, Screenplay
- 2014Success Director
- 2012A Leap of Life Director
- 2012Mexican Ritual Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound, Writer
- 2011The Inheritors Director, Director of Photography
- 2009Good Will Director of Photography
- 2007Déficit Director of Photography
- 2006
