This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.Find sources: "Fernando Eimbcke" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Fernando Eimbcke (born 1970 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter.^[1]

Fernando Eimbcke studied film direction at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM (1992–1996). He started his career directing music videoclips and short films. His feature debut in Mexican cinema was the 2004 Temporada de patos (Duck Season), which won several Film Festival awards including the Ariel Award for Best Film. His next film, the 2008 Lake Tahoe, was received positively at the Berlin International Film Festival, winning two awards.

Filmography

Awards

The First National Contest of Short Film Project
- La suerte de la fea… a la bonita no le importa

2001

Favorite Video ("Video de la gente", or The people's video) for his video for Genitallica
Favorite Video for his videos for Jumbo
Favorite Video for his video for Plastilina Mosh (1998)

Best Director (Mejor Dirección)
- For Temporada de patos
Best First Work - Fiction (Mejor Ópera Prima Ficcón)
- For Temporada de patos
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Mejor Guión Cinematográfico Original)
- For Temporada de patos