Betzabé García (b. 1990, Mexico City), the youngest filmmaker presented in the Karlovy Vary section A Female Take on Mexico, studied at the CUEC film school in Mexico City. She directed several short movies, such as Venice, Sinaloa (Venecia, Sinaloa, 2011) and Porcelain (Porcelana, 2013). Her feature-length documentary Kings of Nowhere was premiered in the spring of 2015 at SXSW, the annual Texas festival. The film won the Audience Award there and also earned accolades at other festivals – Full Frame, the Zurich IFF, and the Morelia IFF in Mexico. García won Best Director of a Documentary Film at the USA's Cinema Tropical Awards, an event that focuses on Latin-American works. She was nominated for the Rolex Mentor & Protégés Arts Initiative in 2014.
MFF Karlovy Vary
