Person

Mara Polgovsky

Directing · Born 1983-01-01 · Mexico City, Mexico

Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (1983; Mexico City) is director, scriptwriter and editor of documentary films. She is also an art historian and cultural theorist of Latin America, and has taught at the University of Cambridge and Birkbeck University of London. She also curated a number of research-led exhibitions. Polgovsky studied script writing and worked as an editor and a director’s assistant on all of Eugenio Polgovsky’s films. As Eugenio’s sister and closest collaborator, she has taken over at Tecolote Films to distribute Eugenio’s work and complete his unfinished projects. She co-directed Malintzin 17 with Eugenio Polgovsky, world premiering at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2022 as part of the Tiger Competition.

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  Resurrection

  Assistant Director

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  Mexican Ritual

  Assistant Director

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  The Inheritors

  Assistant Director

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  Tropic of Cancer

  Assistant Director

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  Malintzin 17

  Director

• 2022Malintzin 17Director
• 2016ResurrectionAssistant Director
• 2012Mexican RitualAssistant Director
• 2011The InheritorsAssistant Director
• 2004Tropic of CancerAssistant Director