María Novaro

Born: 1951-09-11

María Luisa Novaro Peñaloza (September 11, 1951, in Mexico City), better known as María Novaro, is a Mexican film director. She was among the first generation of female filmmakers to graduate from a film school in Mexico. She has made five feature films and fourteen short films. Within the Mexican film industry, she has been a cinematographer, sound mixer, director, screenwriter and editor. Today, Novaro is one of the best known Mexican filmmakers to come out of the New Mexican Cinema and her films express Millian's idea of cinema in feminine.


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Juarez: The City Where Women Are Disposable

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Released: 2007-01-01

Femicide is a growing phenomenon in Mexico. Since 1993, more than 450 women have been brutally...

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Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses

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Released: 2016-07-18

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this...

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