Marianela Vega
Directing
Biography
Born in Peru in 1978, she is a filmmaker, professor, and archivist. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from the University of Texas, a Master in Archiving and Preservation from the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, and has been a fellow of the American Film Showcase. She founded Blue Producciones in 2002, an independent production company that has made seven short films and one feature film exhibited in festivals and galleries around the world. “Rodar contra todo” (2016) won the Best Documentary Feature award at Le Festival de Cinéma Péruvien à Paris. Since 2022, she has co-directed the Master’s in Documentary Film at the Instituto de Cine Madrid.
Known For
Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.
The Bastard Images
La Pared, explores the nature of human instinct and the concept of action and reaction. Miguel finds himself struggling against the gossip he hears about his wife, Dolores. Both will realize, they have to be honest of who they are and what they want as husband and wife.
The Wall
It tells the story of the players of Peru's first wheelchair rugby team, men and women from different parts of Lima who came together in late 2012 to play a new sport that few had ever heard of.
Rodar contra todo
Away combines animation and video in the shape of a personal diary that explores the internal process that is implied when adapting to a new place -that which one doesn't belong to- and the ideas, feelings and conflicts that are created by the contact with this space.
Away
Based on the short story Ciudad de Payasos by Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón, Payasos tells the story of Chino, a young journalist who, after the death of his father, takes refuge in the world of street clowns.
Clowns
On his last day at home, a man finds an opportunity to prove something important to his granddaughter and himself before departing and leaving his memories behind.
The Light Bulb
Distance is both a farewell and a quest. A farewell to a space—the family home—and to the time it holds—a distant, bygone era. And a gathering of memories, words, and objects whose images, projected onto the walls of the house, seek to reconstruct that time before turning their gaze forward.
Distancia
An intimate look at the female universe, a journey in time through evocative images and the personal stories of women from the same family. The personal search of a daughter in the life of her mother and grandmother, contrasting the dreams, ideas and experiences of three generations.
Conversaciones II
An intimate dialogue between mother and daughter in which past decisions, present fears, and expectations for the future are confronted. This conversation emerges from a process in which the director engages with her mother's testimony—received from afar on audio tapes—and contrasts it with her own questions through a journey through family archive footage.
Conversation I
The death of a loved one leaves a void. In Absence, that void is materialized in a space where we meet Jorge, Amalia, and Verónica, learn their stories, and discover the people they lost. Through their memories, the void is filled, if only for a moment.