
Eugenio Polgovsky
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1977-06-29
Day of Death
2017-08-11 (40 years old)
Place of Birth
Mexico City, Mexico
Eugenio Polgovsky
Biography
Eugenio Polgovsky (June 29, 1977 – August 11, 2017; Mexico City) was a Mexican filmmaker and visual artist. He worked as director, cinematographer, editor, sound designer and producer of his films. Polgovsky was known for the Mexican documentaries "Tropic of Cancer" ( Semaine de la Critique 2005) and Los Herederos "The Inheritors" (Mostra of Venice, Orrizontti 2008 & Berlinale Generation 2009).
He was the first filmmaker invited in the history of Trinity College, Cambridge, as Fellow Communer in Arts in 2016.
Polgovsky was the founder of Tecolote Films in Mexico City (2004). He has received 4 Ariel Awards, (Mexican Academy Awards) and more than 20 International awards for his films, including the Joris Ivens Award in Cinema Du Réel, París 2005. He became a visionary, innovative and independent documentarist, and he brought an experimental spirit and a poetic eye to the medium of cinematography and worked closely and in a prolonged way with the communities whose stories and conditions he has sought to explore. His personal cinematography enchained with a meticulous and original editing explored the backgrounds of the Mexican reality, from the rural ancient world to the present of the mega city of Mexico. The MoMa of NY presented his film "Tropic of Cancer" as part of a selection of the region’s most innovative contemporary films.
Acting
(1996)
Crew
(2022)
Malintzin 17
Director, Director of Photography
(2016)
Resurrection
Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director
(2016)
Lightbyrinth
Director
(2014)
Success
Director
(2013)
Heli
Thanks
(2012)
Mexican Ritual
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Writer
(2012)
A Leap of Life
Director
(2011)
The Inheritors
Director, Director of Photography
(2009)
Good Will
Director of Photography
(2007)
Déficit
Director of Photography
(2006)
Matapájaros
Director of Photography
(2006)
Acme & Co.
Director of Photography
(2006)
Through Alan Glass
Director of Photography
(2004)
Tropic of Cancer
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
(2004)
The Colour of His Shade
Screenplay, Director, Editor, Director of Photography
(2003)
Family Bonds
Director of Photography
(2003)
Anónimo
Director of Photography
(2001)
Goodbye Marina
Director