Merino, Martha Cristiana

She took a course in art history at the Instituto de Cultura Superior in Mexico City and a writers’ workshop with Mexican writer Ana Terán. She took various classes in theater and film, including a class with Lola Cohen at The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute, Santa Monica, and another in documentary development research with Thom Powers, the programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), at New York University (NYU). She received the Best Experimental Short Film Award at the 4th Corona Fasnet Short Film Festival, Ireland, for Alterego y la máscara del miedo (2011), which also participated in the 9th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), the 8th International Short Film Festival FENACO, Peru, and the 8th Monterrey International Film Festival (FIC Monterrey), among others. She is currently seeking funds for her first feature film project La alacrana and is writing the screenplay for her documentary A Kidnap: The Other Side of the Coin.