Marcela Arteaga (she/her) is an award-winning director and producer, whose work explores themes related to memory, which is the foundation of the present. By revisiting history as a “living past,” her work uses memory as a tool in a creative new model of storytelling through documentaries. With her 2019 film The Guardian of Memory, for example, Marcela raised her voice against authorized crime while balancing the ethics of the injustices portrayed on screen with the aesthetics of filmmaking, inviting audiences to both understand and be moved. The film was awarded Best Documentary at the Ariel Awards in 2020. Her current film, The Invisible War, addresses a crucial issue for the future of humanity—nuclear accidents—through a poetic language that strives to break through audience indifference. 

Marcela’s CEA finalist project is The Invisible War.