“Cinema and its images have given me the chance to look into other people's lives and learn from their stories to imagine a better future.”
Director, producer, photographer and documentary cinema promoter, Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Aparicio, Juan Carlos Rulfo, is part of the group of filmmakers that has proposed new forms of documentary narrative in Mexico. He has won five Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences; the Grand Jury Prize for Best International Documentary at Sundance for In the Pit; the Humanitas Prize –considered the cinema counterpart of journalism's Pulitzer– for Those Who Remain, and the Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography for the same film, as well as other major national and international honors.
Juan Carlos has taught at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University. He is a Rockefeller-MacArthur, Guggenheim and Ford Foundation fellow. He is a member of the International Documentary Association (IDA), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the Mexican Association of Cinematography Authors (AMC).