Marina Stavenhagen (born July 16, 1962 in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

) is a Mexican screenwriter, writer, and film director. She is the daughter of anthropologists

Rodolfo Stavenhagen Rodolfo Stavenhagen (29 August 1932 – 5 November 2016) was a German-born Mexican sociologist and anthropologist who specialized in the study of human rights and the political relations between indigenous peoples and states. He was a professor-r ...

and María Eugenia Vargas. Her family arrived in Mexico after escaping

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

Career

Her work has focused on social themes in Mexico, such as

student movements Student activism or campus activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change. Although often focused on schools, curriculum, and educational funding, student groups have influenced greater political e ...

and

guerrillas Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics ...

. She been dedicated to promoting a "national identity" in Mexican cinema, often emphasizing the difficulties and lack of support for Mexican filmmakers. She has written scripts for feature films including ' (1992) and the award-winning ' (2000). In 2005, she wrote the screenplay for a documentary about revolutionary Mexican schoolteacher

Lucio Cabañas Lucio Cabañas Barrientos (, 12 December 1938 – 2 December 1974) was a Mexican schoolteacher who became a revolutionary, albeit not a Marxist one. Cabañas regarded Emiliano Zapata as his role model and he never abandoned his Christian faith, a ...

. From 2007 to 2012, she was the director of the

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía The Mexican Film Institute ( es, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, IMCINE) is an agency of the Mexican federal government, under the auspices of the Secretariat of Culture, that supports the development of national film production and the fi ...

(IMCINE, Mexican Institute of Cinematography). She was a member of the

Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte The Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA; ''National System of Art Creators'') is program developed by the former Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and founded per presidential decree on September 3, 1993. Its goal is the advancem ...

(National System of Creators), of the board of directors of the Festival de Cine para Niños (Children's Film Festival) and president of the Association of Women in Film and Television in Mexico.

Awards and honors

In 2004, the

French government The Government of France ( French: ''Gouvernement français''), officially the Government of the French Republic (''Gouvernement de la République française'' ), exercises executive power in France. It is composed of the Prime Minister, who ...

awarded her the Decoration of Arts and Letters for her work promoting French culture through the Festival of French Cinema in

Acapulco Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , also , nah, Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has bee ...

Filmography

Script

* ''La guerrilla y la esperanza: Lucio Cabañas'' (2005) * ''La última noche'' (2003) * ''De la calle'' (2001) 'Streeters' * ''En medio de la nada'' (1994) 'In the Middle of Nowhere''* ''Dentro de la noche'' (1991) * ''La última luna'' (1990)

Direction

* ''Sonata de luna'' (1992) * ''Amor y venganza'' (1991) (''Love and Vengeance'')

References

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