
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.
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2023 · Self
movieDrawings Against Bullets
2019 · Thanks
movieTesoros
2017 · Producer, Editor, Director, Writer
movieLes réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016 · Self
movieLopez Street
2013 · Thanks
movieThe Good Herbs
2010 · Director, Editor, Producer, Screenplay
movieBurn the Bridges
2007 · Producer
movieJuarez: The City Where Women Are Disposable
2007 · Self
movieWithout a Trace
2001 · Writer, Director
movieEntangling Shadows
1998 · Director
movieThe Garden of Eden
1994 · Editor, Screenplay, Director
movieAutumn
1993 · Director
movieDanzón
1991 · Director, Writer, Editor
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1990
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1989 · Director, Writer
movieTales of the City
1988 · Director, Writer
movieAzul Celeste
1987 · Director
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1986 · Producer, Director, Writer