Andrea Arauz

BIOGRAPHIE

Andrea Arauz is a Central American filmmaker and executive producer of Aurora Studio. Based in Honduras. She has a master degree in Documentary Cinema from the School of Cinema from Barcelona (ECIB). Her past films as a director and producer includes: Awakening, short fiction for Spotlight Initiative and UN WOMEN (Honduras-2020), Birthday Cake, short fiction (Costa Rica, Honduras-2020) , Deprived of Liberty, short documentary (Honduras-2015) and The Last 50, long feature documentary (Barcelona). She has also video edited Santitos, winner of the International Short Film Festival El Heraldo in 2016 and Best International Short Film Miami Fest Best Shorts Worldwide in 2018. She is a member and collaborator of the Female Honduran Filmmakers Collective. In 2019, she helped the Female Honduran Filmmakers Collective to produce the second exhibition of films created by women “El Sueño de Alicia” (Alicia’s Dream). On behalf of the Female Honduran Filmmakers Collective, she is the Project Manager of "Transforming Imaginaries Project", funded by the Spotlight Initiative in Honduras, a global partnership between the European Union and the United Nations. With the objective of designing methodology and executing the training space of the "Film School: Learn, Transform and Take Action", for the prevention of gender violence in Honduras, benefiting more than 100 children in the country. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and 2021 Logan Nonfiction Fellow. She is currently working on her first long feature documentary as director The Stillness of a Revolution. In 2021 she was the first Honduran documentary filmmaker to win the Logan Nonfiction Program Fellowship in the USA. Also in 2021 she was a recipient of the Emerging Content Creators grant for NALIP's Diverse Women in Media Forum 2021. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the collective of women filmmakers of Guatemala.

FILMOGRAPHIE