Susana Blaustein Muñoz is an

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. She directed four films since she started her career in 1980. She also produced one of those films, the documentary ''

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo ''The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo'' () is a 1985 Argentine documentary film directed by Susana Blaustein Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Documenta ...

'' (1985), with co-director Lourdes Portillo, about the

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo () is an Argentina, Argentine human rights association formed in response to abuses by the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla. Initially the association worked to find ...

who looked for their

disappeared An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing ...

children during the

Dirty War The Dirty War () is the name used by the military junta or National Reorganization Process, civic-military dictatorship of Argentina () for its period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983. During this campaign, military and secu ...

. This film was nominated for an

Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence ...

for Best Documentary Feature. Her last film was 1993's ''Mi casa, mi prisión'' (''My Home, My Prison''). Susana Muñoz was born in Argentina where she lived until 1972, when at the age of 18 she moved to Israel. She worked as a news editor for Israeli television and seven years later, Muñoz moved to the United States to pursue a higher education at the

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...

. Although Muñoz was not living in Argentina during the "Dirty War" where left-wing supporters who criticized the government disappeared, many of her loved ones were. Her sister was forced into exile for 9 years and many high school friends of Muñoz disappeared during the war. As she was so close to the war in Argentina, in 1978 she first had the idea to make a documentary, co-directed by Lourdes Portillo, titled, "Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo". The film tells the story the mothers of the women, men and children who disappeared in Argentina during the war and their fight to find answers about their lost children. When the two women were interviewed about whether the film has a feminist agenda Portillo responded, "It's a feminist film in the sense that it was conceptualized by women. It's about women. We didn't try to exclude men from it. We tried, though, to deal with the idea that women can do something about the political situation in their country."

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