“Cinema has taught me half of what I think I know, and what it hasn't taught me, it has helped me imagine.”
Ramón Cervantes is a director, screenwriter and editor, a graduate of the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC-UNAM), where he also taught screenwriting, directing and editing.
He has directed the mid-length films El sentido del juego (1977), Todos los espejos llevan mi nombre (1980), Fragmentos de un cuerpo (1988) and Alguien se acerca…(1989). His debut feature, La vida inmune (2005), was selected for several international festivals including Cairo, Chicago, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Palm Springs and San José, California.
Ramón has edited the documentaries Elecciones generales en Uruguay (1985), Grandpa Cheno and Other Stories (1994), Juan, I Forgot, I Don't Remember (1999) –for which he received the Ariel for Best Editing–, Las dos Fridas (2003), Tierra Caliente (se mueren los que la mueven) (2004), Un retrato de Diego (2007) and Muerte en Arizona (2014). He also edited the TV series Diary of a Chef (2012), among others.
Since 1992 he has been head of the Audiovisual Services Unit of the Universum science museum.
He is currently editing the documentary Once Upon a Time, by Juan Carlos Rulfo.