María Novaro

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1951-09-11 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

María Novaro

Biography

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.

Production

2007

Burn the Bridges

as Producer

2010

The Good Herbs

as Director

1989

Lola

as Director

1991

Danzón

as Director

1991

Danzón

as Writer

1991

Danzón

as Editor

1994

2001

2010

2010

The Good Herbs

as Producer

2010

The Good Herbs

as Screenplay

2001

Without a Trace

as Director

1994

The Garden of Eden

as Screenplay

1994

2013

Lopez Street

as Thanks

2017

Tesoros

as Producer

1998

2017

Tesoros

as Editor

2017

Tesoros

as Director

2017

Tesoros

as Writer

1989

Lola

as Writer

1988

1993

Autumn

as Director

1988

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