Margot Benacerraf
Margot Benacerraf | |
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| Born | Margot Benacerraf 14 August 1926[citation needed] |
| Died | 29 May 2024 (aged 97) Caracas, Venezuela |
| Occupation | Film director |
Margot Benacerraf (14 August 1926 – 29 May 2024) was a Venezuelan film director of Moroccan Jewish descent. Benacerraf was one of the first Latin American filmmakers to study at IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques) in Paris.
Life and career[edit]
Benacerraf's two best known films, the 1950s documentaries Reverón and Araya, are considered "landmarks of Latin America narrative non-fiction".[1] Reverón illustrates the life of the well-known Venezuelan painter Armando Reverón. Araya portrays the day-to-day work of the workers of the salt mines of Araya, a village in the east of Venezuela.[2] The film was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival,[3] where it shared the Cannes International Critics Prize with Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour.[4]
Benacerraf founded the Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela in 1966[5] and was its director for three years consecutively. She was a member of the board of directors of Caracas Athenaeum,[6] and in 1991, with the help of the writer and patron of the Latin American cinema Gabriel García Márquez, created Latin Fundavisual, the foundation in charge of promoting Latin American audio-visual art in Venezuela.[7]
Benacarraf died in Caracas on 29 May 2024, at the age of 97.[7]
Awards[edit]
Benacarraf received several decorations among them the Venezuelan National Prize of Cinema (1995), the Order Andrés Bello, the Order Simón Bolivar, Order of the Italian Government, Bernardo O’Higgins Order of the Government of Chile, among others.[8] In February 1987, Ateneo de Caracas inaugurated a movie theater named after her.[9] In 2019, the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA) awarded Benacerraf the Paez Medal of Art 2019 for her life work.[10]
Filmography[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Kelly, Gabrielle; Robson, Cheryl (2014). Celluloid Ceiling: women film directors breaking through. Supernoval Books. p. 380. ISBN 978-0-9566329-0-6.
- ^ Julianne Burton (1990). "Benacerraf, Margot (1926-)". In Annette Kuhn (ed.). The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-520-08879-5.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Araya". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ Araya[permanent dead link], Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Accessed online 15 November 2009.
- ^ Abreu, Jesús (2016). "Cincuenta años de la Cinemateca Nacional, la memoria desapercibida" (PDF). Comunicación: estudios venezolanos de comunicación (175 (3º trimestre)): 10–13. ISSN 0798-1856.
- ^ Uricare, Joy (29 May 2024). "La ejemplar Margot Benacerraf". El Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 May 2024.
Además formó parte de la Junta Directiva del Ateneo de Caracas, donde más tarde le dedicarían una sala de cine a la que pusieron su nombre.
- ^ a b c d "Muere Margot Benacerraf, la famosa directora de Araya". Efecto Cocuyo (in Spanish). 29 May 2024. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ Moleiro, Alonso (31 May 2024). "Muere a los 97 años Margot Benacerraf, piedra fundacional del cine venezolano". El País América (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 May 2024. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "Caracas Virtual : Centros Culturales : ATENEO". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 26 August 2006. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ "MARGOT BENACERRAF is one of the two recipient of VAEA's Paez Medal of Art 2019". VAEA. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
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