Astrid Dominguez

Biography

Astrid is a writer, director, producer originally from the State of Mexico. She started her career as a director in advertising where she directed more than seventy commercials. In 2015, she was accepted into an MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne Australia, where she developed her graduate short film “Las Desaparecidas” based on her intensive one-year research on the epidemic of gender violence that is currently happening in the State of Mexico where she got involved with activists and mothers fighting to get justice for their daughters. The film has been selected in various international film festivals and screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival as part of the Accelerator Lab program where it won the Swinburne Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker. “Las Desaparecidas” was also awarded best short and best script, best performance and recently won the Mexican Academy Ariel for Best Fiction Short film. Her recent work as a director has mainly focused on female subjectivity, human rights and gender. She is currently developing her first feature film to be shot next year in Mexico.