Eden Bernal Ponce

Non-fiction filmmaker and visual artist from Mexico City. He studied BA Communications and has a Master degree in Visual Arts. His work explores the tensions between topics as gender, territory and violence. He was part by the National System of Art Creators 2019-2022 with the multi-platform project "Cabinet of Invisible Objects". In 2018 he obtained a Production Fund from the Mexican Film Institute for"The Siren Song", his first documentary feature. In 2017 he completed "The Exile", a multi-platform project granted by the Mexican Fund for Arts and Culture (2014) and composed of a short documentary film, a photo exhibition (PhotOn Prize 2018) and a photobook (shortlisted for the Aperture 1st Photobook Award 2018, exhibited at México, Europe and the United States; and compiled by the Guggenheim Museum and Harvard University). In 2013 he was selected for the DocsDF Challenge with short documentary film “The Navel”. In 2010 the Santiago Álvarez and DocsDF Festivals selected “Portrait in Absence”, his first non-fiction short film, previously awarded by the Emerging Filmmakers Fund. He has been a jury member for the ECAMC 2023 fund (IMCINE), the Nun & Duss Fund (VC Mx), and Jóvenes Creadores 2022 (SAC). He is currently co-coordinator of Video Consortium Mexico.