Marcela Zamora

Marcela Zamora Chamorro (born 1980) is a Salvadoran born-Nicaraguan documentary director and journalist. She has worked in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba.

Career Zamora studied journalism in Costa Rica and documentary film at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (ElCTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Her films, mostly documentaries, focus on the issues of human rights and gender. She has worked for Al Jazeera and teleSUR, and has directed multiple documentary initiatives of Salvadoran digital newspaper El Faro.

In her films and documentaries, Zamora also addresses the problems of immigration, exploitation, and misery caused by the violence propagated by governments, paramilitary groups, or street gangs in both urban and rural areas.

In 2014 and 2015, Forbes magazine selected Chamorro as one of the most influential women in Central America.

Filmography 2007: Xochiquetzal 2010: El estudiante (Short) 2010: Culpables de nacimiento (Short) 2011: María en tierra de nadie 2011: Las masacres del mozote (Short codirected with Bernat Camps Parera and Daniel Valencia) 2012: Ellos sabían que yo era una niña (Short) 2013: El espejo roto 2013: Las ruinas de Lourdes (Short) 2013: Las muchachas (Short) 2014: Las Aradas: masacre en seis actos 2015: El cuarto de los huesos 2016: Los ofendidos