Maria Elena de las Carreras

• Visiting Asst. Professor
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Biography

María Elena de las Carreras, MA ’89, Ph.D. ’95, is a Fulbright scholar and film critic from Argentina. She is a regular collaborator of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles and the CSUN Cinematheque. Since 2007, she is a screener of international documentaries for the Sundance Film Festival. She is an accredited journalist at the Berlin Film Festival since 1986. She has published many journalistic articles, scholarly essays and encyclopedia entries, in English and Spanish. She is a visiting professor at Cal State Northridge, Los Angeles City College and UCLA.

Publications include:

“The Berlin Film Festival 2009”, http://www.tft.ucla.edu/profiles/community/berlinale-09/

“Luis Buñuel’s Quarrel with the Catholic Church”, Buñuel, siglo XXI. Spain: Instituto Fernando el Católico, 2004

“The Catholic Vision in Hollywood,” Film History, vol.14, n.2, 2002

“Marina Goldovskaya,” “Gyula Gazdag,” “Krzysztof Kieslowski,” “Jeanine Meerapfel,” Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, 2005

“Lamar Trotti,” “Waldo Salt,” “George Pal,” American National Biography,1999

“El control de cine en la Argentina: 1968-1984,” and “El control del cine en la Argentina: 1984-1991, Foro Político, Revista del Instituto de Ciencias Politicas. Buenos Aires: Universidad del Museo Social Argentino, volume XIX.