Latin American Women Filmmakers

Traci Roberts-Camps is an associate professor of Latin American literature and film in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at the University of the Pacific. She lives in Berkeley, California, and is the author of Gendered Self-Consciousness in Mexican and Chicana Women Writers: The Female Body as an Instrument of Political Resistance.

“Women filmmakers are marginalized, underdistributed, and underappreciated in Latin America, so how is it that their work is so good? Roberts-Camps explores the work of eight filmmakers from four countries to explore the challenges, and the opportunities, of making important films outside the commercial machine.”—Debra A. Castillo, author of Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture