Beatriz Mira Andreu

Beatriz studied visual communication in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Film Production at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC). She was one of the founders of the Colectivo Cine Mujer. With her testimonial documentary short film "Vicios en la cocina" (Vices in the Kitchen), she won the Silver Ariel, and the film was selected among the top ten worldwide films by CILECT-Washington (Worldwide Association of Film and Television Schools). She participated in the Amsterdam Feminist Film and Video Festival, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Meeting in Lima, Peru, and the first Havana Film Festival in Cuba. She has taught various courses and workshops on Latin American and Mexican cinema and on women's work in cinema. Since 1972, she has worked independently and with publishing companies designing periodicals and books for educational, governmental, and non-governmental institutions. In 2003, she founded a civil association dedicated to working with women in the field of health education, "Umbral, comunicación participativa A.C." (www.catedrabergman.unam.mx)