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Biography
Marcela Fuentes-Berain is a multifaceted writer who has worked in film, opera, television, radio, and theater. Among her palette of projects is the script of Hasta Morir, which recevied two nominations from the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences; and Sumas y Restas, co-written with Colombian cult director Víctor Gaviria, awarded Best Movie at the Cartagena Film Festival and Best Foreign Film by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences. She had the great honor to work closely with the late Hollywood director Tony Scott on Man on Fire, starring Denzel Washington. In 1995 her mentor, teacher and friend Gabriel García Márquez asked her to write the libretto for Florencia en el Amazonas, which has been performed in several opera houses around the world from Heidelberg, Germany to Manaus, Brazil. She has been a script consultant for the Sundance Institute for more than 15 years. Her prestige as a teacher has taken her all around Latin America and Spain giving workshops and being part of several juries. She was chosen to create the academic program for the first Mexican screenwriting school, to open in Morelia in 2015. She has been a member of the selection committee of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival since 2001. In 2010 she was part of the Bicentennial Film Committee in Mexico. She currently lives in Mexico City.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | The Opera Fund: Audience Development | 2012 | The Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase | 2009 | Opera for a New America | 1994 | Opera for a New America | 1994 |
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