Arturo González Villaseñor
Arturo González Villaseñor is a filmmaker based in Mexico. His first feature, “Llévate Mis Amores,” screened in 90 festivals, including IDFA, San Francisco IFF, Edinburgh IFF and Ambulante, receiving over 20 prizes, including Los Cabos IFF’s “México Primero” award, the “Best Human Rights” Film Award in Belgium’s Millennium International Documentary FF, the Audience Award in Paris’ Viva México FF and a Diosa de Plata Francisco Pina. It also screened in universities, such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, Madrid’s Universidad Autónoma and Paris Diderot 7. He founded Acanto Films in 2013 and has been a juror in Berlin’s Spanisches Film Festival, Mexico’s DocumentaQro and Mexico’s international Migration and Exile Documentary Film competition.
As a Logan fellow, Arturo will work alongside Isidore Bethel on a documentary film about Antonio del Conde, who, at 95 years old, hopes to reconnect with the daughter he’d long neglected in his life as an arms dealer and revolutionary. Driving across Mexico to visit her, he retraces the path he took to organize Castro’s invasion of Cuba, confronting unanswerable questions about love and duty along the way.