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Malena Roncayolo

Malena Roncayolo

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Biography

Malena Roncayolo is a Venezuelan filmmaker, writer, and producer known for her work in both fiction and documentary cinema. Her films often explore themes of identity, memory, migration, and women’s experiences. She directed the acclaimed feature Pacto de Sangre (1987) and documentaries such as De navíos, ron y chocolate and produced Bleeding Gold (2022), addressing historical and environmental issues in Latin America. Educated in France and the United States, Roncayolo has built a career bridging art and social reflection, and has frequently collaborated with her husband, filmmaker Thaelman Urgelles.

Known For

Hounded on a Carnival Monday
4.7

In the small town of San Jorge, a 12- year-old girl watches in horror as her father, a local telegraph operator is thrown in prison by the local military dictatorship. Meanwhile, her mother, Florencia, must make tough moral decisions in order for them to survive under the political oppression. Even Carnival, with all its colorfulness and celebration, cant disguise the mounting tension between the villagers and government making the girls coming of age all the more difficult when the two collide. This movie combines attractive visual scenes with a highly sensual atmosphere as Florencia fights and uses all her resources and beauty to survive and find revenge.

Hounded on a Carnival Monday

2002
Los pájaros se van con la muerte
4.0

The obsession of The Mother for The Negro causes her sick relationship with The Daughter. Mother and daughter perform a daily routine of rites to conjure The Negro's soul. It pushes them into the dolorous tragedy which will consume them.

Los pájaros se van con la muerte

2013
Los Platos del Diablo
7.0

Ricardo Azolar is looking for the right words, the exact phrases that will give him literary glory. The days are sterile and lacking in those brilliant ideas that should allow him to express through narrative, the fertile flow arising from the imagination. Until he meets Lisbeth, venus and intoxicating muse who nevertheless compels him to write irrelevant and devoid of any imagination literary texts.

Los Platos del Diablo

1992
De Navíos, Ron y Chocolate
N/A

It deals with the agro-industrial wealth before the appearance of oil in Venezuela, when the export of cocoa, coffee and sugar cane to Europe was the main economic activity of the country. The film shows the presence of the Corsicans in the Antilles and in the recently independent Hispanic America, who brought, in addition to their workforce, cultural advances from the European world. It tells a story that spans from the 17th century to the present.

De Navíos, Ron y Chocolate

2012
Bleeding Gold
N/A

In the southeast region of Venezuela, officially known as the Orinoco Mining Arc, an unprecedented ecocide is taking place, where a complex criminal network with transnational characteristics is being articulated. Its consequences are massively damaging the environment and the human rights of dozens of indigenous communities, leading to a historical environmental catastrophe hidden in the lungs of the planet.

Bleeding Gold

2022
Pacto de sangre
10.0

A terrible secret is hidden between the walls of an old house, the past returns and now, for Irene and Alberto, the moment of their condemnation and destruction has arrived.

Pacto de sangre

1987