Filmmaker of the Week Andres Hernandez Covarrubias
Episode 9 of Filmmaker of the Week with Andres Hernandez Covarrubias:
Director, screenwriter and editor. He was born in Xalapa, Veracruz. Graduated from the Escuela Veracruzana de Cine Luis Buñuel. He studied an editing post grade at the International School of Film and TV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba (EICTV) and a screenplay workshop at the Film Training Center (CCC) in Mexico City.
He was part of the Mezcal Jury at the 31st Guadalajara International Film Festival (2016); he was also a jury for the youth award at the Bogotá International Film Festival (2018). His short films, ‘The Night is Young’ (2014), ‘Binary’ (2015), ‘The Pool” (2016) and ‘Doppelgänger, Inc. (2017) have been selected at both national and international festivals.). His most recent short film is Gratification (2020, multiple prize winner and nominated in many international film festivals).