Susana Blaustein

Susana Blaustein has been working in film for the last ten years. She is best known for her Academy Award nominated film which she co-directed and produced with Lourdes Portillo, "Las Madres: The Mothers Of Plaza De Mayo" about the courageous struggle of Argentine women who were seeking to find their "disappeared children". She also co-produced and directed the award winning film "La Ofrenda: The Days Of The Dea"d about the Mexican holiday celebrating and honoring the dead. She also directed an autobiographical film "Susana" about being a Latin woman growing up in a conservative and repressive environment. (09/09)

Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza De Mayo
A film by Susana Blaustein and Lourdes Portillo, 1985, 64 min., Color
This Academy award-nominated documentary about the Argentinian mothers’ movement to demand to know the fate of 30,000 “disappeared” sons and daughters...

My Home, My Prison
A film by Erica Marcus and Susana Blaustein, 1992, 66 min., Color
MY HOME, MY PRISON is an uplifting and informative documentary based on the autobiography of Palestinian peace activist and journalist, Raymonda Hawa ...

Susana
A film by Susana Blaustein, 1980, 25 min., BW
In this autobiographical portrait, Susana leaves her native Argentina to live her life outside the strictures of Latin American cultural and family pr...