Marianela Vega

Directing

Marianela Vega

Place of birth

Peru

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Born in Peru in 1978, she is a filmmaker, professor, and archivist. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from the University of Texas, a Master in Archiving and Preservation from the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, and has been a fellow of the American Film Showcase. She founded Blue Producciones in 2002, an independent production company that has made seven short films and one feature film exhibited in festivals and galleries around the world. “Rodar contra todo” (2016) won the Best Documentary Feature award at Le Festival de Cinéma Péruvien à Paris. Since 2022, she has co-directed the Master’s in Documentary Film at the Instituto de Cine Madrid.

Known for

Clowns poster
9.0

Based on the short story Ciudad de Payasos by Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón, Payasos tells the story of Chino, a young journalist who, after the death of his father, takes refuge in the world of street clowns.

Clowns

2009

Rodar contra todo poster
NR

It tells the story of the players of Peru's first wheelchair rugby team, men and women from different parts of Lima who came together in late 2012 to play a new sport that few had ever heard of.

Rodar contra todo

2016

The Bastard Images poster
9.0

Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.

The Bastard Images

2024

No artwork available
NR

The death of a loved one leaves a void. In Absence, that void is materialized in a space where we meet Jorge, Amalia, and Verónica, learn their stories, and discover the people they lost. Through their memories, the void is filled, if only for a moment.

Ausencia

2002

No artwork available
NR

Distance is both a farewell and a quest. A farewell to a space—the family home—and to the time it holds—a distant, bygone era. And a gathering of memories, words, and objects whose images, projected onto the walls of the house, seek to reconstruct that time before turning their gaze forward.

Distancia

2004

No artwork available
NR

An intimate dialogue between mother and daughter in which past decisions, present fears, and expectations for the future are confronted. This conversation emerges from a process in which the director engages with her mother's testimony—received from afar on audio tapes—and contrasts it with her own questions through a journey through family archive footage.

Conversation I

2005

Film credits

Behind the camera

Clowns poster
9.0

Based on the short story Ciudad de Payasos by Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón, Payasos tells the story of Chino, a young journalist who, after the death of his father, takes refuge in the world of street clowns.

Clowns

2009

Clowns poster
9.0

Based on the short story Ciudad de Payasos by Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón, Payasos tells the story of Chino, a young journalist who, after the death of his father, takes refuge in the world of street clowns.

Clowns

2009

Rodar contra todo poster
NR

It tells the story of the players of Peru's first wheelchair rugby team, men and women from different parts of Lima who came together in late 2012 to play a new sport that few had ever heard of.

Rodar contra todo

2016

Rodar contra todo poster
NR

It tells the story of the players of Peru's first wheelchair rugby team, men and women from different parts of Lima who came together in late 2012 to play a new sport that few had ever heard of.

Rodar contra todo

2016

The Bastard Images poster
9.0

Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.

The Bastard Images

2024

The Bastard Images poster
9.0

Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.

The Bastard Images

2024

No artwork available
NR

The death of a loved one leaves a void. In Absence, that void is materialized in a space where we meet Jorge, Amalia, and Verónica, learn their stories, and discover the people they lost. Through their memories, the void is filled, if only for a moment.

Ausencia

2002

No artwork available
NR

Distance is both a farewell and a quest. A farewell to a space—the family home—and to the time it holds—a distant, bygone era. And a gathering of memories, words, and objects whose images, projected onto the walls of the house, seek to reconstruct that time before turning their gaze forward.

Distancia

2004

No artwork available
NR

An intimate dialogue between mother and daughter in which past decisions, present fears, and expectations for the future are confronted. This conversation emerges from a process in which the director engages with her mother's testimony—received from afar on audio tapes—and contrasts it with her own questions through a journey through family archive footage.

Conversation I

2005

No artwork available
NR

A Polaroid photo that gradually reveals its contents (the same director?) and a question about the future are the game that, in such a short time, confronts the perceptions of different generations.

Una pregunta

2007

Away poster
NR

Away combines animation and video in the shape of a personal diary that explores the internal process that is implied when adapting to a new place -that which one doesn't belong to- and the ideas, feelings and conflicts that are created by the contact with this space.

Away

2003

Away poster
NR

Away combines animation and video in the shape of a personal diary that explores the internal process that is implied when adapting to a new place -that which one doesn't belong to- and the ideas, feelings and conflicts that are created by the contact with this space.

Away

2003

The Light Bulb poster
NR

On his last day at home, a man finds an opportunity to prove something important to his granddaughter and himself before departing and leaving his memories behind.

The Light Bulb

2006

Conversaciones II poster
NR

An intimate look at the female universe, a journey in time through evocative images and the personal stories of women from the same family. The personal search of a daughter in the life of her mother and grandmother, contrasting the dreams, ideas and experiences of three generations.

Conversaciones II

2007

Conversaciones II poster
NR

An intimate look at the female universe, a journey in time through evocative images and the personal stories of women from the same family. The personal search of a daughter in the life of her mother and grandmother, contrasting the dreams, ideas and experiences of three generations.

Conversaciones II

2007