Antonino Isordia Llamazares (born 30 April 1973 in Xilitla, San Luis PotosÃÂ) is a Mexican film and documentary director known for making documentary films in a more cinematic style. His films have been shown at International Film Festivals and received awards in his native Mexico, Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. He has had a documentary feature film and a documentary short each nominated for Ariel Awards.
Isordia is a graduate of the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica film school in Mexico City. He also attended the Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin, Germany in 2005. His most notable films are 1973 (2005) and Los Niños Devoran Lobos (Kids Devour Wolves, 2008). His films and documentaries have won the Silver Goddess Mexican Award and the JVC award of the Guadalajara International Film Festival. He won an award for Best Video Documentary at the Valdivia International Film Festival in Valdivia, Chile in 2001 for Descenso (Descent). 1973 appeared at the Seminci Film Festival in Valladolid, Spain. In Variety Robert Koehler wrote of Isordia's work from the Palm Springs International Film Festival that:
The subject matter of Los Niños Devoran Lobos, violence among youths, was considered important enough that the rights were picked up for broadcast in 2008 on Tr3s in Mexico and MTV Latin America in Central America and several South American countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He directed a brief animated introduction to the first Cinema Planeta Film Festival held in Cuernavaca, Morelos in 2009. He then produced a similar animated short, that was directed by Carlos Armella, which served as an introduction to the second Cinema Planeta Film Festival held in 2010.
In addition to directing documentaries, Antonino Isordia (also credited as Antonio Isordia) has worked on film sound, sound recording, production, and screenplay writing.
In 2016, Isordia participated as one of the directors of the collaborative environmental documentary Nahui Ollin, sol de movimiento, a film that brings together multiple perspectives on the effects of climate change in Mexico and was presented in international documentary film cycles.
In 2019, he wrote and directed AtâÂÂAniiâ (Tu amante), his first narrative feature film, spoken primarily in the Téenek language. The film was developed as part of a filmmaking workshop with communities from the Huasteca Potosina region and premiered at the 34th Guadalajara International Film Festival, where it competed in the Mezcal Award for fiction. It was later screened at the Cineteca Alameda in San Luis PotosÃÂ.
His documentary 1973, developed over several decades, has continued to be screened at film festivals and cultural events, including its presentation at the 24th Macabro International Horror Film Festival in Mexico City in 2025, reflecting the continued relevance of his early work.