Anabel Rodríguez Ríos

Anabel Rodríguez Ríos

TFI Support

TFI Latin America Fund 2013

About

Anabel Rodríguez Ríos has an MA in filmmaking at the London Film School. She just finished The Barrel, a short documentary which was shown at HotDocs. Growing in Oil is her debut feature.

Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

Once upon a time, the Venezuelan village of Congo Mirador, floating on stilts just inches above the deep Lake Maracaibo, was prosperous, alive with fishermen and poets. In recent years, it has decayed and disintegrated, rotting beneath pollution and neglect—a small but prophetic reflection of Venezuela itself.