Mexican film producer Mariana Méndez Alejandre has joined the Oscar and Annie nominated short film “Bestia” as co-producer. Directed by Hugo Covarrubias and inspired by real events, the film centers around the life of a secret police agent during the military dictatorship in Chile, where the relationship with her dog, body, fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and country. Nominated in the animated short category at the 94th Academy Awards, the film uses felt puppets with porcelain faces to juxtapose the fragility of the characters’ heads with the steeliness of their mindsets.