Malena Martinez(I)
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Born in Peru, based in Vienna, Austria and Cusco, Peru. Flaherty Seminar Fellow, 2021. Master in Creative Documentary at the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona. Fellow at European film development program Archidoc 2014/15 (La Fémis - MEDIA), Aristoteles Workshop 2009 in Sibiu, Romania. Graduated in Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Magister in Romance Philology at the University of Vienna (Thesis: "Luis Figueroas' film adaptation of José María Arguedas' novel Yawar Fiesta"). Cinematography summer school - ESCAC Barcelona.
2014/15 Mentée of director Ruth Beckermann in the Austrian FC-Gloria Verein Mentoring Program. Graduated from the School of Artistic Photography Kubelka, Vienna. Music and singing studies in Lima.
Her feature documentary film Hugo Blanco, Deep River (2019) supported by the Federal Chancellery of Austria BKA has its world premiere in the International Competition of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, and was invited to more than twenty festival selections.