Founded in 2003, Arte Mecánica is a Mexican company dedicated to the development, production and co-production of auteur cinema with international reach. Over more than two decades of activity, Arte Mecánica has produced or co-produced twenty-three fiction and documentary feature films, a fiction series, television documentaries and several short films. Its works have been selected and awarded at Cannes, IDFA, Tokyo, Tribeca, Guadalajara, Vancouver, Montreal and Hot Docs, among others. Its filmography includes titles such as La 4ª Compañía, winner of ten Ariel Awards including Best Picture; Días de Gracia, official selection at the Cannes Film Festival and winner of seven Ariel Awards; El hombre que vio demasiado, Official Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival and Ariel Award for Best Documentary Feature; Carga Sellada, Bolivia's submission to the Academy Awards; La brújula la lleva el muerto, official selection at the Tokyo and Los Angeles festivals; and 9 meses 9 días, in official competition at IDFA. It also co-produced Short Plays, an international fiction series bringing together filmmakers such as Gaspar Noé, Vincent Gallo, Doris Dörrie, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pablo Fendrik, Viktor Kossakovsky and Carlos Reygadas, among others. Since 2016 it has operated from Guadalajara, Jalisco, where it combines the production of its own projects with production services for national and international films, including El rey de todo el mundo, the last film by Carlos Saura, photographed by Vittorio Storaro; Allá, by Montserrat Larqué; Amarte, by Roberto Girault; and Toco Madera, by Gimena Montemayor. With a vision focused on auteur cinema and international co-productions, Arte Mecánica develops films of artistic ambition, a voice of their own and an international calling.