Laura Baumeister
About
Laura Baumeister is a Nicaraguan film director and sociologist. She currently lives in México, where she studied film directing at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC). Laura has directed the following short films: ISABEL IN WINTER (2014), which was selected for the Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival; FUERZA BRUTA (PRIMAL FORCE, 2016), which received Special Mention at the Rencontres de Toulouse Film Festival (France), Best Actress at the Morelia International Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the Mérida and Yucatán Film Festival; and OMLIGO DE ÁGUA (WATER NAVEL, 2018), which had its international premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, received a special jury mention at the Morelia International Film Festival and exhibited at the Clermont Ferrand Festival in France.
Laura is currently developing her first feature film LA HIJA DE TODOS LAS RABIAS / DAUGHTER OF RAGE. This will be the first feature to be shot in Nicaragua by a Nicaraguan born female director.
La Hija de Todas Las Rabias
Nine-year-old María is left at a recycling factory in Nicaragua by her struggling mother, joining a workforce of other children. Torn between anger and hope, María resorts to her vivid imagination in order to come to terms with her motherʼs absence and make sense of a chaotic world.