Fina Torres
To see a photo of Fina Torres http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2000_Woman_on_Top/tn/fina_torres_woman_on_top_001.jpg
Fina Torres is a Venezuelan film director born in Caracas on October 7th, 1957. According to Wikipedia Fina Torres “studied design, photography and journalism in Venezuela and later on film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris.� http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fina_Torres Fina Torres has worked as a film editor, camera operator, and script supervisor. After graduating, she made short films and documentaries.
Fina Torres’ major films are Oriana (1985), Luna Llena (1991), Celestial Clockwork (1993), Women on Top (2000), and Leap of Love (2005). For Oriana, Torres was the director and screenwriter, for Luna Llena, she was the producer, for Celestial Clockwork she was director, producer, and screenwriter, for Women on Top Torres was the director and executive producer and she wrote Leap of Love. For all the plot summaries of her movies I am using IMDb. Oriana is about a young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt and is a drama. Luna Llena is a 90 min film in Spanish and that is all IMDb has about it. The movies2 website says the filmis about two lovers that communicate their love despite being inmates in a Venezuela prison. http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=145131. Celestial Clockwork is a comedy about a woman who bolts from her wedding altar and flies from Venezuela to Paris to realize her dream of becoming a great opera star. Women on Top is a romance comedy about a Brazilian chef who moves to San Francisco when her husband, frustrated by her motion sickness, cheats on her. Leap of Love is a romance about a woman, who is a strong believer of the soul mate theory and rejects all men. To look at the plot summaries click on link to IMDb below.
Though I haven’t seen any of Torres’ films, after reading about the plot summaries I am happy to see that she uses women as her man characters. Luna Llena’s plot looks very interesting and unique. I would never have thought to make a movie about lovers in a prison.
Finding Torres was not that hard once I found the Wikipedia list for women filmmakers. Then I just went down the list and tried to find women that were outside of the USA. Then I just googled her name for images and other sites that had information about her and her movies. IMDb was also a great site that I have used before. It gives you a ton on information about all the movies out there. Here is the link to Torres on IMDb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868643/maindetails .