Paz Fábrega

Paz Fábrega (born 1979) is a Costa Rican film director, scriptwriter and producer. She has directed two feature films and several shorts. Her film Agua fría de mar (Cold Water of the Sea) earned the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, one of the most prominent awards won by a Central American film.

Early life Fábrega was born in San José, Costa Rica. She lived in New York City from ages 10–14 as her mother worked on her doctorate. She studied communications at the University of Costa Rica, photography at the Colegio Universitario de Alajuela, and film at the London Film School, graduating from the latter in 2006.

Career Fábrega's graduation film Temporal was shot in rural Costa Rica in 2006.

She wrote the script for her first feature, Agua fría de mar, at residencies in the Binger Filmlab and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. It was screened at more than 40 international film festivals and received prizes in Lima, London and Paris. It was a finalist for the Sundance NHK Award and won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Later, Fábrega was selected for the Cannes Film Festival Residence de la Cinefondation in 2009.

Viaje, her second feature film, won the Cine en Construcción prize at the Costa Rica Film Festival in 2014 and premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.

She established her production company, Temporal Films, in 2006. suicide - 2006 The red and the black (short) - 2006 8 - 2006 Temporal (short) - 2006 Situations Vacant (short) - 2005 Proyecto La Sala (short) - 2001