Director

Margot Benacerraf

Writing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 937722

IMDb ID: nm0070148

Known for: Writing

Born: August 14, 1926

Died: May 29, 2024

Age: 97

Place of birth: Caracas, Venezuela

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1952 - 2018

Years active: 67

Average TMDB rating: 7

Wikidata: Q467445

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Biography

Margot Benacerraf was a Venezuelan film director. She studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris and is best known for her 1959 award-winning film Araya. Founder of the Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela in 1966 and its director for three years consecutively. She was a member of the board of directors of Caracas Athenaeum, and in 1991, with the help of the writer and patron of the Latin American cinema Gabriel García Márquez, created Latin Fundavisual, the foundation in charge of promoting Latin American audiovisual art in Venezuela.

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