Sofía Castellanos
About
Sofía Castellanos is a Mexican filmmaker with a degree in Audiovisual Arts Image and Sound Department from the University of Guadalajara.
She has participated in the production of more than 30 film projects, mainly as an assistant director, including THE KING OF THE WORLD by Carlos Saura.
For the past three years, she has served as the production manager and junior advisor of the film school documentary training project TERRITORIOS INTERIORES (Berlinale, Sheffield, Ambulante, FICCI), from the Image and Sound Department at the University of Guadalajara.
Once I Left to Become Maria
In the wake of her father’s death, filmmaker Sofia Castellanos begins to reconnect with her mother, María. Little by little, she begins to understand the woman that was left abandoned all these years – her identity stored and buried in dusty old boxes, her beautiful singing voice no longer nurtured. As the filmmaker questions why her mother abandoned her dreams, the film explores themes of gender and femininity.