Mariana Saffon is a Colombian director and screenwriter based in Mexico City, she has directed short films and commercials in Colombia, Mexico, United States and Morocco. She graduated from the MFA in Screenwriting and Film Directing from Columbia University in New York. As a student she received the Milos Forman Scholarship and the Directors Guild of America Student Jury Prize.
Her latest short film “Entre tú y Milagros” won the Orizzonti award for Best Short Film at the 77th Venice International Film Festival and has been awarded at multiple festivals around the world such as the Hamptons International Film Festival, POFF Shorts, TOFFIFEST and Reykjavík. The short film is featured online in The New Yorker Magazine and Criterion Channel.
Mariana is currently in Mexico writing her first feature film “Mar de Leva” which will soon be filmed in Medellín, Colombia.
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