Costa Rican women filmmakers, their experience in the creation of film productions (2000-2021)

Abstract

Since the year 2000, Costa Rican cinema has increased the number of productions and women filmmakers have played a leading role in its development and promotion, given that they hold the majority of jobs as directors in the country. This historical investigation consists of analyzing the participation and experience of Costa Rican women filmmakers as workers in film productions from 2000 to 2021. The Costa Rican case breaks with a characteristic that has prevailed in the cinematographic world: it has been dominated by men, and even though there have been women filmmakers, they have been made invisible, which causes them to be forgotten. In addition, it shows that women have had to fight for an audiovisual space within the global film industry, which, like other fields, has historically been controlled by men.