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Patricia Cardoso
Bogotá, Colombia
Patricia Cardoso is a director, writer, and producer. Cardoso's feature film Real Women Have Curves was a box office and critical success and has become a landmark of Latino cinem…
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Patricia Cardoso is a director, writer, and producer. Cardoso's feature film Real Women Have Curves was a box office and critical success and has become a landmark of Latino cinema. Cardoso is a graduate of UCLA's film school, an anthropologist, and a Fulbright scholar; her anthropological approach to directing guides her film and television work. Cardoso was the first Hispanic woman director to receive a Sundance Audience Award and a Student Academy Award. In 2017, Cardoso was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Directors Branch. In 2019, her film Real Women Have Curves was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry "as a cinematic treasure and worthy of preservation as part of America’s patrimony".
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2023
Harlan Coben's Shelter
TV show Director
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2023
The Watchful Eye
TV show Director
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2023
Will Trent
TV show Director
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2020
Diary of a Future President
TV show Director
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2019
Emergence
TV show Director
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2019
All Rise
TV show Director
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2019
Tales of the City
TV show Director
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2019
In the Dark
TV show Director
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2018
Half the Picture
Movie Self
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2017
Teresa's Trip
Movie Director
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2016
Queen Sugar
TV show Director
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2013
Meddling Mom
Movie Director
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2011
Deep Blue Breath
Movie Director
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2010
Lies in Plain Sight
Movie Director
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2002
Real Women Have Curves
Movie Director
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1994
The Water Carrier
Movie Director
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The Air Globes
Movie Director
