After decades of struggling for the recognition long granted their male peers, female filmmakers in Mexico are setting the industry ablaze.
MEXICO CITY — As a young girl growing up in 1980s Mexico, the idea of becoming a filmmaker was almost unthinkable for Fernanda Valadez. Other than a movie club at the local university, there were no cinemas in her hometown, Guanajuato, and films made by women were few and far between.
“The dream of making cinema was something far away,” she recalled recently. “We grew up with the feeling that making films was very difficult.”
Some 30 years later, however, that dream has become very real.