About me
andreaarauz.film@gmail.com
+504 9600-0464
Others studies:
2024 - course of the "Inter-American Human Rights System" on the OAS / Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) platform.
2021 - Course on international and national legal framework for the implementation of policies to counteract femicides and other forms of violence against women and girls. Taught by the National Women's Institute, in support of the Spotlight Initiative and the United Nations System in Honduras.
2016 - Film Editing Workshop: Structure and Rhythm by Berta Frías / EICTV ( International School of Cinema and TV) - Cuba
2015 - Degree in Communication and Advertising from Central American Technological University (UNITEC)
Andrea Arauz is a Central American filmmaker and executive producer of Aurora Studio. Based in Honduras. She has a master degree in Documentary Cinema from the School of Cinema from Barcelona (ECIB). She is currently Production Coordinator of the Solutions Storytelling Program at Video Consortium for Latin America. Since 2021, she’s part of the screening committee of the Camden International Film Festival. This year, 2024, she became programmer associate for CIFF. Her past films as a director and producer includes: Living Bodies, documentary short film (2022); Awakening, short fiction for Spotlight Initiative and UN WOMEN (Honduras-2020); Birthday Cake, short fiction (Costa Rica, Honduras-2020) and Deprived of Liberty, short documentary (Honduras-2015). She has also video edited Santitos, winner of the International Short Film Festival El Heraldo in 2016 and Best International Short Film Miami Fest Best Shorts Worldwide in 2018. Through 2021-2022, she was part of the coordinating team of the Female Honduran Filmmakers Collective. On behalf of the Female Honduran Filmmakers Collective, she was the Project Manager of "Transforming Imaginaries Project", funded by the Spotlight Initiative in Honduras, a global partnership between the European Union and the United Nations. With the objective of designing methodology and executing the training space of the "Film School: Learn, Transform and Take Action", for the prevention of gender violence in Honduras, benefiting more than 100 children in the country. Also in 2021 and 2022 she worked as a financial administrator in the School of Cinema with a Gender Approach "Una Mirada Propia" for the F.H.F.C. She is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Collective of Guatemalan Women Filmmakers "Milpas". In 2021 she became the first Honduran documentary filmmaker to win the Logan Nonfiction Fellowship. In 2023 she was part of the jury at the IDA AWARDS for the short film category. She is currently working on her first long feature documentary as director The Stillness of a Revolution.
As a Communications and Advertising graduate, she has worked in digital strategy, audiovisual production, branding, graphic design, 2D animation and creative director in projects for national and international NGOs.
Residencies, Fellowships, Scholarships and Grants:
2022 - Fellow in the second laboratory of film creation by and for women. Supported by Muestra de Cine Hecho por Mujeres, Guatemalan Association of Audiovisual and Cinematography. (AGACINE), Cultural Center of Spain in Guatemala and the Ocote Agency.
2021 - Emerging Content Creators Scholarship recipient for the 2021 Diverse Women in Media Forum - NALIP
2021 - Logan Nonfiction Program Fellowship
2020 - Workshop on Narrative Structures in Creative Documentaries and Financing Models. Supported by the Goethe Institute, German Embassy and Government of Costa Rica.