She started her career as an actress when she was only fifteen in a theatre company in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her film debut was in the film El Secreto de Romelia (1988) by Busi Cortés, a director she worked again with in 1992 in Secretos y escaleras. Her participation in Adolfo Arau’s film adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s novel Como agua para chocolate, in 1993, make her win the award to the best actress in Tokyo International Festival and pushed her career to national and international recognition. In 1995 she initiated a career in American film industry playing the leading role in Manhattan Merenge! by Joseph B. Vasquez and in Land of milk and honey (1996) by Joseph Desteñí. After those films, she also took part in Bottle rocket (1996) by Wes Anderson, Last stand at saber river (1997), a production for television by Dick Lowry; Sugar town (1999) by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss; Mascara (1999) by Linda Kandell; or the thriller Bless the child ( 2000) by Chuck Russell. Lumi Cavazos has also developed a very prolific career in Mexico, where she has worked in several television series –such as a coproduction with the United States, En el tiempo de las mariposas, co-starring with Salma Hayek and directed by Mariano Barroso– and with the film directors Sergio Olhovich, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (1993); Francisco Athié, Fibra óptica (1998); Óscar Blancarte, Entre la tarde y la noche (1999); or Fernando Kalife, 7 días (2005). Her experience in short films includes her performances for films such as En un bosque de la china (1987) directed by Diego Gullco, Del otro lado del mar (1994) by Marcela Arteaga, The keening (1999) by Alex Smith, Sístole diástole (1997) by Carlos Cuarón.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca
