José Buil

Director screenwriter and editor He left the career of Surgeon to enter the career Journalism and Collective Communication at UNAM Founder of TAPOSIN and Tintero and Sitios magazines he practiced cultural journalism and film criticism in El Nacional La Revista de la Universidad and Su otro yo In 1977 he entered the CCC Cinematographic Training Center where he made in that same year the documentary My unemployed friends and the fiction films Notes for other things 1978 and Endre in the city 1979 all short films made as exercises In 1981 he filmed his thesis film the mediumlength film Goodbye goodbye my idol which served as rehearsal for The Legend of a Mask 1989 a parody that reviews the common places of the wrestling cinema and with which he debuted professionally receiving Ariel for Best First Film in 1991 He collaborated in I Know Three 1983 an independent mediumlength film made by his wife Maryse Sistach for whom he also adapted and edited The Steps of Ana 1988 adapted Last night I dreamed with you 1991 based on the story of Alfonso Reyes The creative revenge and with it codirected The paternal line 1995 story between the academic documentary and poetry between the anthropology autobiography and the intimate family remembrance from the rescue of homemade films filmed by his grandfather between 1925 and 1940 in Papantla Veracruz the film was part of the Official Selection of the 52nd Venice Film Festival It was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the European museums of the Guggenheim Foundation and won the Arieles for Best Original Screenplay Storyline and Documentary Feature as well as the Jury Prizes at the Trieste Festivals Bogotá Uruguay and the one of Best assembly in Gramado Brazil In 1997 he made for the UNAM the documentary video The Ballad of John OReilly about the participation of the Battalion of St Patrick in the war of 1847 against the USA He codirected again with Sistach The Comet 1988 a film set in 1910 that is inspired by the life of the pioneers of Mexican cinema to narrate the formation of a filmmaker That same year he received the Best Latin American film award at the San Juan Festival Puerto Rico In 2000 he produced adapted and edited Perfume de violetas by Maryse Sistach with which he obtained the Ariel for Best Original Screenplay Since 1998 he is an Active Member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AC