Olimpia

Olimpia (2018)

The movement that changed a country.

The film tells the story of Raquel, Rodolfo and Hernán, members of a brigade at the UNAM during the student movement in Mexico in 1968. Through their photographs, films and writings, we will know the history of the day that the army took the university and how their students united, shouted and never forgot.

Date of release
2018-10-02
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Animation, Thriller, Drama, History
Director
José Manuel Cravioto

Casting

Interesting facts

Olimpia is a 2018 Mexican adult animated thriller film written and directed by José Manuel Cravioto. Starring Nicolasa Ortiz Monasterio, Luis Curiel, Daniel Mandoki, Diego Cataño, Lumi Cavazos, Tiaré Scanda, Rolf Petersen and Valentina Buzzurro. It is the first Mexican animated film to fully use the rotoscoping technique. It won the Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 62nd Ariel Awards. The film was named on the shortlist for Mexico's entry for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not selected.

Production

Principal photography took place in different areas of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the open areas of the Central Library, the Rectory Tower and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters lasting 2 weeks in 2017, to then begin the process of animation by rotoscoping using 100 students of the Faculty of Arts and Design lasting 10 months.

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