Personal info

María Berns is a filmmaker and sociologist. Her films have been screened at festivals in the United States and Europe. She was awarded the prestigious Kodak Prize for her movie The Bride. She was a visiting filmmaker at Istanbul Bilgi University film school and Rochester Institute of Technology where she filmed Rome, Jamaica in Winter and Black Ice. At the University of Texas at El Paso, she wrote the novel Deer and Butterflies that she is adapting to film. She worked as a screenwriter in Channel 11 of Mexico City and Telemundo. During 2008-2009 she served as the Correspondents Coordinator in NOTIMEX. With a scholarship granted by IVEC, she developed the transmedia project Visit as Art in the Port of Veracruz. There she made the feature film So Long. She is the director of Axolotl Cinema, a studio for the production of expanded and transmedia scripts.

Filmography

So long (Director)