Fernando Valencia
Documentary Filmmaker / Content Creator

Films

 

Doc Films

 
 

Seeds, the legacy of the land (Mexico 2021)

In Mexico, maize seeds have been passed down from generation to generation. Inspired by their ancestors’ knowledge, Ramón and Camilo preserve different maize seed varieties in the hope that when they die, there is someone that will continue their legacy. 

  • Director: Fernando Valencia.

  • Producer: Cristobal Camarena.

  • Screenwriter: Santiago Villalobos.

  • Executive Producer: Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE)

  • Cinematographer: Santiago Villalobos.

  • Editor: Nicolenka Beltran.

 

Nuevo horizonte (Ecuador-Guatemala 2017)

After signing a peace agreement with the Guatemalan government, a group of demobilized ex-combatants established an agricultural cooperative as the next stage of their struggle. With only a video camera and a set of photo collections that the ex-combatants kept to delve into their memories, I visited this community as a visual anthropologist to explore how its members’ past struggles remain alive today.

  • Director / Producer / Screenwriter: Fernando Valencia.

  • Executive Producer: FLACSO Ecuador

 

Paper Town (Ecuador - Mexico 2017)

How to tell the story of a factory? Or rather, the story of a town built around it? “Paper Town,” tells the history of a small village in the voice of those who experienced the privatization of the factory, its working class.

  • Director: Alejandro Ponce de León Pagaza

  • Executive Producer: FLACSO Ecuador / PECDA Colima

  • Editor: Fernando Valencia

 

The Patronas´ kitchen (Mexico 2016)

The Patronas' Kitchen tells the story of Las Patronas, women in La Patrona, Veracruz, who began feeding migrants on freight trains 23 years ago. It started when Doña Leo’s daughters gave food to a hungry traveler, inspired by her words: "When people are hungry, you have to give." Since then, they’ve cooked daily for migrants. Their kitchen has become a political space, addressing rural poverty, human rights, society's indifference to migrants, and women's rights.

  • Director: Javier García.

  • Producer: Iliana Martínez y Ana Paula Uruñuela.

  • Production advicers: Carolina Platt y Fernando Valencia.

  • Screenwriter: Afra Mejía Lara.

  • Editor: Carlos Cárdenas Aguilar.

  • Cinematographer: Javier García, Mónica González, Iván Castaneira, Ariel Ojeda, and José Guevara

 

MEXICO’S CROSSROADS (Mexico 2014)

Mexico's Crossroads tells the story of Alba, a single mother and street vendor, who fights to maintain custody of her four children despite lacking stable employment, a school for them, or a safe home to raise them.

  • Director: Juan Pablo Rojas y Fernando Valencia.

  • Producer: Jean Garner (Al Jaazera English).

  • Screenwriter: Juan Pablo Rojas.

  • Editor: Juan Pablo Rojas .

  • Cinematographer: Juan Pablo Rojas y Fernando Valencia.

 

Only one day (Mexico 2009)

A group of Central American migrants arrives in Guadalajara on their way to the northern border. Ángel, Hernán, Paola, and El Negro share that their journey has lasted over seven months; migrating has become their way of life. Just One Day invites us to witness their long hours of waiting, reflect on the joy of childhood, and confront the reality of those often overlooked by society. Just one day—one of many that have passed and many yet to come. Only one day, only a few hours.

  • Director and Screenwriter: Fernando Valencia.

  • Producer: Elena Camacho

  • Editor: Luis Eduardo Luna Bernal, Fernando Valencia, and Víctor J. González.

  • Cinematographer: Víctor J. González.

  • Production advisor: Afra Mejía Lara.