Mariana Rondón is a film director, screenwriter, and visual artist. She was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After studying Animated Film in Paris, Rondón graduated from the Film School EICTV, Cuba. Her short film Street 22 received 22 international awards.

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Mariana’s first feature-length film, At Midnight and a Half (2000), co-directed by Marité Ugás, received 5 “Opera Prima” awards and participated in more than 40 international film festivals. Her next film, Postcards from Leningrad (2007), received 23 international awards, such as FIPRESCI at Kerala, Grand Prix at Biarritz, and Revelation Jury Award at the de São Paulo Festival.

Bad Hair (Pelo Malo, 2013) won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival, the Silver Alexander and FIPRESCI Awards at Thessaloniki, and the Astor Award in Mar del Plata, among 47 other awards. Her recent film Zafari premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2024. She is co-directing La Noche de San Juan, set to be released later in 2025.

In the plastic arts, Rondón’s robotics installation You Came With the Breeze (Fundación Telefónica Award) has been exhibited in Caracas, México City, Puebla, Gijón, Lima, Santiago, and Beijing as part of the Olympics Cultural Project, 2008. She is presently working on the Interactive installation Superbloques.