Patricia Cardoso
- Known for
- Directing
- Place of birth
- Bogotá, Colombia
Biography
Patricia Cardoso is a director, writer, and producer. Cardoso's feature film Real Women Have Curves was a box office and critical success and has become a landmark of Latino cinema.
Cardoso is a graduate of UCLA's film school, an anthropologist, and a Fulbright scholar; her anthropological approach to directing guides her film and television work. Cardoso was the first Hispanic woman director to receive a Sundance Audience Award and a Student Academy Award. In 2017, Cardoso was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Directors Branch. In 2019, her film Real Women Have Curves was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry "as a cinematic treasure and worthy of preservation as part of America’s patrimony".
Movies with Patricia Cardoso
- Half the Picture 2018 · ★ 6.6
Movies directed by Patricia Cardoso
- Real Women Have Curves 2002 · ★ 6.1
- Lies in Plain Sight 2010 · ★ 6.3
- Meddling Mom 2013 · ★ 4.3
- Teresa's Trip 2017 · ★ 5.5
- The Water Carrier 1994 · ★ 8.0
- Deep Blue Breath 2011