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Director/ ScreenwriterGraduate of Communication Sciences by ITESO-UIA and Master in Film dirección and production at the School of Image and Design in Barcelona, Spain.Winner of FONCA Fellowship in 2009, with the project Guilty of Innocence about incarcerated innocent women, won the 5th Festival of Social Cinema and Human Rights of Valparaiso, Chile in 2011.Screenwriter of the romantic comedy Seven years of marriage distributed by Quality Films and exhibited on Netflix, Script Consultant for the film The Rising, a co- production United States- Ireland on the Irish revolution.Her debut documentary, about refugees from Western Sahara in Algeria and their struggle to survive, Compaz de Arena/ Sands of freedom distributed by Spiritual Planet, was awarded the Moisés Huentelaf Award at the Indigenous Peoples Film Festival of Valparaiso, Chile and won the jury’s special award at the 7th International Film Festival Digital of Viña del Mar and was screen at the World Summit of Environmental Cinema presented at COP16.She was nominated for the Rockefeller Scholarship and received the support of Canon Mexicana directing the first feature film in Latin America made with EOS cameras for cinema, the film Spilling Salt, Co-production Mexico-Bolivia has been selected in more than 85 Festivals around the world, with 23 awards and 11 nominations, the film is part of the education content program of the Russian Federation and of the acquis of the UNRIC (United Nations Regional Information Centre for Wester Europe)As a writer, her stories have participated in the program Corners of Reading 2011 by winning the national call for short histories with a Chinese tale “Góru the magical” which was distributed 93,170 copies throughout the Republic. She was part of the board of directors of Women in Film and Tv, belongs to the Mexican Society of Audiovisual Directors and Creators, has been jury in several times for IMCINE, EFICINE, Meters New York Film festival and Alucine. She has been a professor and has collaborated on various television projects with Discovery Channel, Endemol, Argos, Antena 3, Televisa and BBC.