Marcela Zamora

Historia

She studied journalism and documentary filmmaking at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba. She has worked for Al Jazeera and Tele Sur. She is currently director of documentary video at El Faro, a digital newspaper in El Salvador. She has produced and directed documentaries in El Salvador, Nicaragua, México, Venezuela and Cuba, amongst them Xochiquetzal: la casa de las flores bellas and María en tierra de nadie, a feature film that won awards in México and other countries. Her most recent works include El espejo roto and Las Aradas, masacre en seis actos.

Películas

Los ofendidos
Los ofendidos
When I turned 33 years-old, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadorian Civil War, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These people do not ask for revenge, all that they ask is for the truth to be known.
Los ofendidos
Los ofendidos
Screenplay
When I turned 33 years-old, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadorian Civil War, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These people do not ask for revenge, all that they ask is for the truth to be known.
Los ofendidos
Los ofendidos
Director
When I turned 33 years-old, my mother told me that my father, during the Salvadorian Civil War, had been captured and tortured for 33 days by the National Police. Two years later I had the courage to ask him and other men and women about those days. These people do not ask for revenge, all that they ask is for the truth to be known.
El cuarto de los huesos
El cuarto de los huesos
Director
From the Institute of Legal Medicine, "The Room of Bones" follows several mothers from El Salvador who search for the remains of their children, who were disappeared amidst violence in their country. The film is a look at the twenty or more bodies that are received at the morgue on a monthly basis and remain unclaimed; the story of DNA with no name, or identifiable family, of bodies that became cadavers after being struck for belonging to a rival gang.
María en tierra de nadie
María en tierra de nadie
Writer
An intimate look at the illegal and extremely dangerous journey of three Salvadoran women to the US. Doña Inés, a 60 year old woman, has been looking for her daughter for five years and is following the same route her daughter took. Marta and Sandra, tired of the violence from their husbands and wanting to overcome poverty, decide to leave their families behind to travel to America - with only thirty dollars in their pockets.
María en tierra de nadie
María en tierra de nadie
Director
An intimate look at the illegal and extremely dangerous journey of three Salvadoran women to the US. Doña Inés, a 60 year old woman, has been looking for her daughter for five years and is following the same route her daughter took. Marta and Sandra, tired of the violence from their husbands and wanting to overcome poverty, decide to leave their families behind to travel to America - with only thirty dollars in their pockets.