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’s degree in Documentary Cinema from the School of Cinema of Barcelona (ECIB). She is currently the Latin American Communities Manager for The Video Consortium. Throughout 2023 - 2024, she worked as the Production Coordinator for the Solutions Storytelling Project: Latam, a regional initiative of VC in partnership with Skoll Foundation. Since 2019, she has supported the Camden International Film Festival as part of the screening committee, and in 2024, she became the first Honduran to be invited as Programmer Associate at CIFF.
She has worked as a fixer/producer for international production companies from Spain, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, and Australia that seek documentary material in Central America.
Her past films as a director and producer include: Living Bodies, a documentary short film (2022); Awakening, a 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. Her latest documentary short film, “Living Bodies,” has been in more than 10 international film festivals and is the 2024 winner of the Special Jury Award in the Experimental Category at the 6th International Women Filmmakers Festival in Turkey. In her work, she explores her roots and addresses themes such as migration, human rights, and gender violence, often working with various formats and genres. Always looking to create safe and learning spaces for non-fiction creators in the region. Seeking to empower minority communities.
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 the "Transforming Imaginaries Project", funded by the Spotlight Initiative in Honduras, a global partnership between the European Union and the United Nations. With the goal to 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. 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 and 2024, she has been part of the IDA AWARDS jury in 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.