Laura Amelia Guzmán

Laura Amelia Guzmán

45 (1980-05-07)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Laura Amelia Guzmán is a Dominican film director, writer and producer based in Santo Domingo. Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas founded Aurora Dominicana, an independent film production company.

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Sand Dollars 2015 (5.786)

Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady client, Anne, a much older French woman, who, like many other Europeans, has found an idyllic refuge on the island to spend her last years. For Noelí, the relationship is one of convenience, but the feelings become more intense as they plan to leave together for Paris.
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Holy Beasts 2019 (4.6)

Remembers an artist in the form of a somnambulistic fantasy: A filmmaker faces increasing challenges as she tries, decades later, to complete Dominican filmmaker Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished work.
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Cochochi 2007 (5.8)

Two young indigenous brothers from the La Sierra Tarahumara region of northwest Mexico return home from Benito Juarez elementary boarding school, only to find their fates pulling them in opposite directions in director Laura Amelia Guzmán's dramatic meditation on the value of culture and the cost of progress.