Julio Chavezmontes | |
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| Born | Julio Chavezmontes Jato Velandia 1983 México |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker, Producer, Writer |
Julio Chavezmontes is a renowned Mexican producer and screenwriter, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and twice nominated for the AMACC Ariel Award. He has produced more than 20 films, many of which have been screened at the world's leading film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice, and Toronto, among others. His productions have received multiple accolades, most recently the Best Director Award (“Annette”) and the Jury Prize (“Memoria”) at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
He has produced or co-produced films by filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Leos Carax, Abel Ferrara, Mia Hansen-Love, Ruben Östlund, Lucrecia Martel and Yann Gonzalez, as well as Mexican directors Sebastián Hofmann, Emiliano Rocha Minter, Nicolás Echevarría and Eugenio Polgovsky, among others.
In 2011, he founded PIANO with Sebastián Hofmann, one of the leading art film production houses in Mexico and Latin America. Since its inception in 2011, PIANO has been a platform for original and risky projects.
His first feature film, "Halley" (2012), had its national premiere at the Morelia Film Festival and its international premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, and was supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and Foprocine.[1]
Notable productions: Halley (2012), Echo of the Mountain (2014), We Are the Flesh (2016), Time Share (2018), The Accused (2018), Knife + Heart (2018), Siberia (2020), The Fugitive (2020), Annette (2021), Memoria (2021), Bergman Island (2021).