15 Facts About Elisa Miller

Elisa Miller Encinas is a Mexican award-winning film director, writer, and producer.

Elisa Miller studied English literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and film direction at the Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica in Mexico City.

Elisa Miller is the first and only Mexican female filmmaker to win the Golden Palm for a short fiction feature at the Cannes Film Festival.

Elisa Miller was born in Mexico City, Mexico in July 1982.

At age 19 and after earning her high school diploma in Mexico City, Elisa Miller began her higher education studies in philosophy at the Aix-Marseille University in France.

Ver Llover was awarded the Short Film Golden Palm in 2007 and Elisa Miller became the first Mexican female director to receive the prize.

In 2010 and as a response to the social pressures and expectations regarding her future projects, Elisa Miller released her first full-length film Vete Mas Lejos, Alicia, which tells the story of a young woman who escapes from home as a result of family pressures regarding her professional future.

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has been argued by Elisa Miller to be an inspiration for the project.

Four years later and after meeting the English artist Sarah Lucas during her art exhibitions in Mexico, Elisa Miller directed and produced her first documentary film, About Sarah.

Elisa Miller's workshops are focused on film directing, screenwriting, and montage.

Elisa Miller's classes seek to enhance the development of personal ideas through introspection, which is a technique that she has utilized in her filmmaking career.

Elisa Miller has expressed that these two subjects are commonly depicted in her cinema because of how meaningful and relevant they are in her personal and professional life.

Besides allowing the inclusion of spontaneous events, Elisa Miller seeks to highlight the personal qualities of the actors.

For Elisa Miller, winning the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival turned out to be a moment of significant emotional pressure:.

Similar to many women in the Mexican workforce, Elisa Miller has expressed to experience the struggles of machismo and gender discrimination.