Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce
Jose Eduardo CASTILLA PONCE (2000, Mexico) is a Mexican director and screenwriter. He is a co-founder of the Mexican production company Persignados, which specialises in fiction films and music videos. In 2024, his first short film, Aguacuario, was selected for the 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, competing in the Generation section. In the same year, he received a script development grant from the Artistic Creation and Development Stimulus Program (PECDA) of the state of Puebla for his feature film Los Cachorros del Rodeo. José Eduardo is in production of his next short film, Los Tripitas and the documentary Memorias de Pólvora.
Filmography
(all short) Aguacuario (2023), Levantamuertos (2024)
Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce op IFFR
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Levantamuertos: Cumbia for the Dead
Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce | 19' | Mexico | World premiere
A bizarre road-movie amusingly led by zombies and cumbia.