Paz Fábrega was born in 1979 in San José, Costa Rica. She studied still photography, and journalism before going to the London Film School. She shot her graduation film, "Temporal" , in rural Costa Rica in 2006. The film has been in competition in Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, Uppsala, Biarritz and many other international festivals. Her second short film, "Cuilos" , shot in San José, in 2008, premiered in August 2008 in the international competition of Locarno Film Festival. Paz is now working on "Agua Fría de Mar" , her first feature. The film was developed at the Binger Filmlab and at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. It won the Arte award at the Buenos Aires Lab and was a finalist for Sundance/NHK 2008. Her past and current projects deal with loneliness and the vulnerability of youth, placed in the very particular context that is Costa Rica; a small country with amazing geography and landscapes, and a degree of isolation from the rest of the world, with many stories untold.
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