Maria Novaro
Born in Mexico City in 1950, became well known with her second feature DANZÓN (1991) at the Cannes Film Festival. In the late 70’s she made 16mm documentaries with the Colectivo Cine-Mujer. After that she studied film in CUEC/UNAM, Film Directing and Screenwriting at Sundance/Utah and Project Development in EICTV/Cuba. She has written all of her films, and she has also edited and produced some of them. LOLA was her first feature (1989, OCIC Award, Berlin). Other films are: EL JARDÍN DEL EDÉN (1994, Venezia), SIN DEJAR HUELLA (2000, awarded at Sundance). LAS BUENAS HIERBAS (2010, awarded in Rome and Guadalajara). TESOROS is her first film for children.

Director's Statement
“Children have always been around in my life and in my films. I always trusted my intuition and felt at ease when directing scenes with them. Enjoying the process and delighted in their presence. But it had never come to my mind to make a film for children. Less had I imagined directing scenes with so many of them, with ages ranging from 3 to 11, with many 6-year-olds. Shooting TESOROS was a challenge, of course, More so because I really wanted to tell the story from a child’s point of view, in which playing games is the natural method to apprehend the world. I wanted to tell this story at their pace; to give it the rythm they would bring to the narrative. To portray their magical minds and imagination, so inventive in going back and forth from reality to fantasy”.