We preserve, research and share the audiovisual heritage of northeastern Mexico.
We are a film archive specializing in archival footage and historical images from northeastern Mexico, available for film, television, and streaming productions. Our collections include materials documenting the region’s public, social, cultural, and industrial life, as well as home movies and recordings of everyday life, filmed from the 1940s through the 2000s on film, video, and digital formats.
Our Featured Collections
Through these collections, we recover films and recordings that for decades had been overlooked and largely absent from the region’s audiovisual record.
Anitas
Orphan films collected over time from various sources. The collection consists of home movies in 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm formats, dating from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Escamilla
Filmed by Antero and Jorge Escamilla between the 1940s and the 2000s, the collection covers a wide range of subjects, including official, sporting, cultural, commercial and institutional events. It comprises materials in 35mm and 16mm film, U-Matic, Betacam and DVCAM formats.
Morales Garza
Belonging to this Monterrey family, the collection comprises materials in 8mm, Super 8, Video8, Hi8, MiniDV and digital formats, filmed and recorded from the late 1970s through the 2000s.
Archival Footage for Film, Television, and Streaming
Footage from our collections has been used as stock footage to complement documentaries and feature films for cinema, television, and streaming platforms. Check the availability of our footage and contact us for information about licensing fees, terms, and territories.
News and Articles About Our Archive
CULTURA REGIONAL
In this issue dedicated to the region's archives, our director Gil Morales reflects on memory and identity.
MATERIA FÍLMICA
A conversation between Jano Burmester and Gil Morales about Monterrey’s “lost” city, for the Argentine film platform Materia Fílmica.
EL NORTE
Article by Dael Gutiérrez about
our archive, published in one of
the most widely circulated
newspapers in northern Mexico.
VIDA UNIVERSITARIA
Coverage of Our Talk at the College of History of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at U.A.N.L.
ACADEMIC@S43 MONTERREY
Editorial by Meynardo Vázquez
on the history of our archive,
from its fortuitous beginnings.
EL HORIZONTE
Feature on the Archivo Filmico del Noreste and Invitation to Its Presentation at the Museo de Historia Mexicana
The Archivo Filmico del Noreste is a community-led initiative founded by filmmakers from Nuevo León, dedicated to recovering, preserving, researching, and promoting the audiovisual heritage of northeastern Mexico. Our collections bring together materials that document different aspects of life in the region, particularly in Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas, through films and audiovisual recordings made primarily during the 20th century.
Facing the risk of these materials being lost, damaged, or forgotten, we work to contribute to their recovery, preservation, research, and dissemination, making this audiovisual heritage available to new generations and to projects that seek to tell stories about Mexico.
