Natalia Bruschtein

Natalia Bruschtein was born in Argentina and has lived in Mexico since 1976. She did film studies at the Film Training Centre (CCC) in Mexico and graduated as film director with her documentary Finding Víctor, which was nominated by the Mexican Film Academy for Best Documentary Short. She has worked in different areas of film. As sound designer she won the Ariel Award for Best Sound for documentary In the Pit, directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo. However, her work focuses mainly on film editing. She has edited several documentaries and fiction films that have been awarded, including Cobrador: In God We Trust by director Paul Leduc, for which she won the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema's Coral Award. Documentary Rosario by Shula Erenberg has also received numerous awards. She directed her first feature film, Time Suspended, in 2015, which is participating in numerous festivals and has won several awards. It won three awards at the Guadalajara International Film Festival: the Iberoamerican Documentary Jury's Special Award, the FIPRESCI Award and the Special Mention Mezcal Award. At the Festival de la Memoria Documental Iberoamericano she received the Audience Award. At the Guanajuato International Film Festival she obtained the Mexican Documentary Special Mention. At the Budapest International Documentary Festival she won the Let's Face Aging Main Award for Best Documentary. At the Chicago International Film Festival won the Golden Plaque Documentary Competition and the Special Mention Tato Miller Award at the International Film Festival of Mar de Plata, Argentina (SICA-AMPA). Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, Cuba, Feisal Award. She was nominated for Best Documentary at the Biarritz Festival Latin America where she earned the artistic residence to take place in Lizières, France in 2016 with the project En la piel del otro, which is under development. She won Best Feature Documentary at the Sehsüchte - International Student's Film Festival and she was nominated for best documentary at the Ariel Award 2016 for best documentary with the film Time Suspended.