Patricia Cardoso is a Colombian-American film director, screenwriter and anthropologist. She has directed The Water Carrier, Real Women Have Curves, Lies in Plain Sight, The Air Globes, Meddling Mom, Ro, La Clave and El Regalo. She has won a Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Audience Award, a Student Academy Award, the Ida Lupino Directors Guild of America Award and a Humanitas Prize.Patricia CardosoBornBogota, ColombiaAlma materUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversidad de los Andes (Colombia) [1]OccupationFilm directorScreenwriterProducer[2]Spouse(s)Reneau H. ReneauChildren2Cardoso was the first Latin American woman to win Sundance’s Audience Award [3] and the first Colombian to receive an Academy Award[4] [5][6] [7] with her student film The Water Carrier. She was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Directors branch in 2017.
