DIRECTOR
​PATRICIA ORDAZ CRUZ
Mexico City, Mexico
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Patricia Ordaz Cruz (1986) is a Mexican director and screenwriter. She studied Communication Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and screenwriting at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2014, she attended the Masters in Creative Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Her cinematic work often reflects on themes such as origin, belonging, and migration from a contemporary and self-referential perspective. These interests are evident in "Toloriu" (Spain, 2020), her first documentary feature, and in Mirrors (Mexico, 2024), a fiction short film.
While living in Spain, she worked on the development and research of projects for renowned Catalan directors such as Lluís Galter, Neus Ballús, and Carla Simón. She has also co-produced works such as the medium-length documentary film La Concorrente (Spain-Italy, 2016) by Alberto Diana and the short film La Banquisa (Mexico-Spain, 2022) by Sergio H. Martín. Over the past two years, she has been part of the original fiction series development team for Paramount Mexico, specializing in content with female main characters. She oversaw projects by creators and head writers such as Julia Solomonoff, María Camila Arias, Santiago Roncagliolo, Fernanda Eguiarte, Juan Matías Carballo, among others.
She is currently working on the script for her first fiction feature film, Sierra Sur, for which she received a fund from Mexican Institute of Cinematography  for writing in 2023.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

• IMCINE Rewriting Program Beneficiary, 2023
• PROCINE, Production Beneficiary, 2023​​

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PREVIOUS WORK

Toloriu, 2020 / DCP / Documentary