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Tag: Latin American Women Filmmakers

Mariana Chenillo: A Brief Introduction

Posted on November 14, 2017

In 2010, Mariana Chenillo was the first female director to have won an Ariel for her opera prima. The award for first film is technically for direction, but is distinct to that of direction. Established in 1947, Ariels are the Mexican film academy awards and a woman has yet to be awarded specifically for direction. There…

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Access, distribution and research: Marcela Fernández Violante

Posted on December 6, 2013

As part of a project on Latin American women filmmakers (mostly directors and producers) I will be writing about Marcela Fernández Violante. She has been at the centre of Mexican filmmaking since the 1960s. She was one of the generation of first filmmakers who were educated in film school and later she became the director…

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