Mariana Rondón

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Mariana Rondón (2014)

Mariana Rondón (* 1966 in Caracas , Venezuela ) is a Venezuelan film director .

She studied animation in Paris. In 1986 she went to the International College for Film and Television in Cuba. In Cuba she made the short film Algo caía en el silencio (1989). In 1990 she and other Latin American filmmakers founded the production company Sudaca Films , for which she made several short films, including Cáscaras (1992) and Calle 22 (1993).

Her first feature film was the drama A la media noche y media , which appeared in 1999 and was a Peruvian-Venezuelan coproduction in collaboration with Marité Ugás . The film has been shown at over 30 international film festivals. In 2007, the feature film Postales de Leningrado followed , which earned her the "Golden Sun" at the Festival de Biarritz Amérique Latine and which is a Venezuelan candidate for a nomination for " best foreign language film " at the 2008 Academy Awards . The film is about children who grow up during the guerrillas in Venezuela in the 1960s.

Her film Pelo malo received the Golden Shell in 2013, the main prize of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián .

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