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Faride Schroeder is a Mexican writer/director with a strong and intuitive gaze. Her work as a Director has been featured on Los Angeles Times, Brut, Vogue, Time Out; she was spotlighted on Nowness as one of the 5 international female directors to watch and as one of the 100 Most Creative Mexicans in the World in 2021, by Forbes. Faride has a degree in Communication and Film Studies from Universidad Iberoamericana - Mexico City. With 20 years of experience in the Mexican and International film industries, she is a co-producer of the fiction feature films 'The Black Minutes' (2021), which got 8 nominations at the 64th Mexican Academy Awards, and the New York Times Critics' pick 'Son of Monarchs' (2021), which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at Sundance 2021. Faride was assistant director of 'Prayers for the Stolen' (2021), winner of a special jury mention at Un Certain Regard, 74 Cannes Film Festival.
Faride writes and directs her own films, screened at La Semaine de la Critique, Fantasia International Film Festival, Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, Morelia International Film Festival, and SFC 'Best Mexican Shorts' at Cannes Film Festival, among others, as she directs high-end advertising/branded content for global brands for world-class companies like The Lift and, currently, Madre and Madrefoca.
Her thriller Daughters of Witches (2021) was the first fiction film that the Oscar-nominated Yalitza Aparicio starred in since her successful debut in Alfonso Cuaron's Roma, it premiered on Hulu and won Best Narrative Short at the San Diego Latino Film Festival and at the Monterrey International Film Festival. Her short 'Oasis'. (2020) won both the first National and the first International awards of Nespresso Talents 2020, and in 2021, she was part of the Nespresso Talents International Jury at Cannes Film Festival.
Faride won the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund at Los Cabos International Film Festival, and five awards at the Guadalajara International Film Festival for her documentary feature 'Oasis', which is currently in production. Her science fiction feature script 'The Lovers of this World' was selected by Morelia International Film Festival for the screenwriting lab, which is now in development.
