Sergio Tovar Velarde, (born 31 December 1982) is a Mexican film director. He directed the feature film Mi último dÃÂa (aka Aurora Boreal) which was premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and was released commercially in theaters in summer of 2009.
He is one of the filmmakers of The Misfits, alongside Javier Colinas, Marco Polo Constandse and Jorge RamÃÂrez Suárez.
Tovar was born in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico. He studied communications at Ibero-American University in Mexico City and film theory at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. He studied directing with well-known Polish film director Ludwik Margules.
In 2009, became FONCA's scholar. In 2009, 2006 and 2002 was FECAN's academic.
Despite his early efforts for direct amateur short films, his first professional short film was not made until 1999: Carolina. In June, 2002; work besides Roberto Cobo in KCL, Doce y Cuarto and the film premiere became the last tribute for the actor.
Tovar has been directing short films in France, Canada, Cuba and Mexico; being selected and nominated on 70 film festivals. In 2008, his short film Edén became part of the Best of International Award-winning films in Cannes Short Film.
In 2011, Tovar direct The Misfits, a film composed of 4 contributions from different filmmakers. His last film is Four Moons
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