Like every year, within the framework of its Film Festival, the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP) pays tribute to some representative figure of Mexican cinema with a successful career, for which in this seventh edition the “Peyote” award will be presented. to the Mexican actress Luisa Huertas.
The rector of the UASLP, Dr. Alejandro Javier Zermeño Guerra, will present the award at the closing of the film event, as a recognition of the 55 years of career of the Salvadoran-Mexican actress.
The programming of the 7th. UASLP Film Festival includes the screening of the film “No nos moverán”, directed by Pierre Saint Martin and starring Luisa Huertas herself in the role of Socorro, a lawyer who becomes obsessed with finding the soldier who killed her brother during the events that occurred in Tlatelolco in 1968.
The film was awarded 3 awards at the Toulouse Film Festival, France in March 2024 and was chosen best film at the Guadalajara Film Festival this same year. The presentation of the feature film will take place on Thursday, October 10 at 7:00 p.m., at the Centro Cultural Universitario Bicentenario and will be attended by the first actress, as well as Rebeca Manríquez, who also participates in the film.
uisa Huertas is a graduate of the INBA School of Theater Art and the University Theater Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has participated in more than 80 plays, in festivals and international tours, in more than 50 films, in soap operas and series such as “Cappadocia”, “Diableros” and “La casa de las flores”.
In theater she has been awarded Best Actress in Mexico and abroad, while, in the seventh art, she won an Ariel for female co-acting in “Pious Mentiras”, by Arturo Ripstein, and has had 4 other nominations for the same. He has participated in projects with prominent directors such as Carlos Carrera in “El Crimen del Padre Amaro”, “Sin Remitente”, and “Embrujo”; with Ignacio Ortiz in “Fairy Tale to Sleep Crocodiles”; and with Jaime Humberto Hermosillo in “Written in the Body of the Night” and “Rencor.”
In 2019, it was named Living Cultural Heritage of Mexico City; In 2021 he received the Bergman Chair Medal awarded by UNAM; In May 2022, the Congress of Mexico City awarded him the Medal of Artistic Merit in Performing Arts 2021 and in December of the same year he received the Fine Arts Medal for Artistic Merit in Theater; In 2024, he was awarded recognition for theater teaching within the framework of the 31st UNAM International University Theater Festival.
The complete schedule is available on the site or on the social networks of @Festival de Cine UASLP, @CulturaUASLP and @CineClubUASLP.
