Jaime Urquiza
Director · b. 1980 · Mexico City, Mexico
Jaime Urquiza was born in Mexico City in 1980. His first project as director and writer was Black Constellation in 2022 which has been rewarded in more than 30 film festivals worldwide. His next short film is Traces, a Western about redemption. He's now in filming The Scandalous Charm of the Broken Egos, a surrealist short film and love letter to cinema and Mexican culture starring Silvia Pinal and he's also in pre production for his first feature film.
Movies3
Movie10.0DramaA group of people are confronted with their sorrow and inner demons in the worst group therapy of their lives.
Movie5.8ComedyMaria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his passion for cooking and stopped working in "El Molcajete", now operating under the direction of chef Rosi. Maria does everything possible to bring her grandmother back to the restaurant, while chef Rosi cooks dishes according to new trends in fusion cuisine which highlights the light food, but Maria and Doña Tere won't accept the traditional flavors and cooking secrets to be forgotten. The cuisine battle between Tere and chef Rosi is an epic fight not only between long-stablished mexican food and light food, but also a struggle of family bonds, friendship, cooking secrets, flavour’s passion and more than two hundred ingredients that are needed in order to prepare Mole, a traditional mexican sauce.
Canela
2013 · 19 votes
MovieDocumentaryA filmmaker uses cinema through the flicker of memory and dreams to chase the fragments of a life slipping through his fingers.