Laura Amelia Guzmán
Producer, writer and filmmaker Laura Amelia GUZMÁN (1980, Dominican Republic) graduated from the Altos de Chavón Academy in the Dominican Republic, where she specialised in visual art and photography. After several photo exhibitions, she took camera lessons at the international film and television school in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She has collaborated many times with her partner Israel Cárdenas, including for Cochochi (2007) and Carmita (2013). The pair has won awards for their work, including the Discovery Award for Cochochi at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. Her most recent film, La hembrita (2022), for which Cárdenas is Director of Photography and Producer, was selected for IFFR 2023.
Filmography
El paciente de la uno (2003, short), Las últimas horas de un cerdo (2005, doc), Cochochi (2007, co-dir), Jean Gentil (2010, co-dir), Carmita (2013, co-dir), Dólares de arena/Sand Dollars (2014, co-dir), Noelí en los países (2016, doc, co-dir), Sambá (2017, co-dir), Holy Beasts (2019, co-dir), La hembrita/Baby Girl (2023)
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Laura Amelia Guzmán at IFFR
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Croma Kid
After Emi transports his parents to another dimension, he must find a way to bring them home.
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La hembrita
An unfulfilled upper-class Dominican woman finds herself unexpectedly responsible for her maid’s granddaughter.
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Cochochi
Beautifully photographed fable about the issue of integrating or holding on to cultural identity. First steps in the adult world of two Mexican bro
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Sand Dollars
The European woman Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) is enjoying a luxurious stay on the coast of the Dominican Republic. Young Noéli makes a living from re
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Ocaso
With the eye of a practised photographer, the debutant Court makes an atmospheric elegy for an unnecessary person. In a derelict mansion in the mis
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Jean Gentil
The journey by the Haitian Jean Remy Genty, a French teacher looking for work in the Dominican Republic, takes him from the urban bustle to the jun