Guita Schyfter
Still: El águila y el gusanoGuita Schyfter (1947, Costa Rica) obtained her degree in psychology writing a dissertation thesis on the treatment of phobias. Afterwards while training at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University in Great Britain she shifted her interests and with a British Council grant took the Television Production and Directors Course at the B.B.C. in Shepard’s Bush, London. On her return to Mexico she worked at Schools Television and made nineteen audiovisual programmes for the National Archives of Mexico.
Later on directed documentaries and produced plays for the theatre.
Filmography
(selection) Los Caminos de Greene/Greene's Roads (1987, doc), Xochimilco, Historia de un Paisaje/Xochimilco, history of a landscape (1989, short doc), Novia que te vea/Like A Bride (1992), Sucesos distantes/Distant Happenings (1993), Las Caras de la luna/The Faces of the Moon (2003), Los Laberintos de la memoria/The Labyrinths of Memory (2008, doc), Huérfanos/Orphans (2013), Melchor Ocampo, una vida (2017, TV series), El águila y el gusano/The Eagle and the Worm (2023)