Headshot of a woman with dark hair and a ponytail looking at the camera
Maricarmen Merino Mora
Photo courtesy Maricarmen Merino Mora
Director

Maricarmen Merino Mora (she/her) is a Costa Rican filmmaker. Her work explores the thin line between the personal and the political, trying to understand, and question the most intimate narratives that shape our lives. She studied Film Direction at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico. Her hybrid short film Bella was part of the Official Selection of the Guadalajara Film Festival, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography EnergaCAMERIMAGE, and was awarded as Best Director at the International Short Film Festival in Mexico. Her debut documentary feature film ¿Dónde estás? premiered at the Guadalajara Film Festival in 2018. She is working on her second documentary feature Matryoshka.

Program cohorts
(Egg)celerator Lab 2022
films by Maricarmen Merino Mora
Still from Matryoshka
Matryoshka
Still from Matryoshka
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Jonna McKone
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