Carmen Guarini

Aurelia Del Carmen Guarini (born 18 January 1953) is an Argentine anthropologist, teacher, film director, and film producer specializing in anthropological documentary films. She teaches visual anthropology and directs documentaries in Argentina (Fundación Universidad del Cine; University of Buenos Aires; Observatorio Escuela de Cine Documental) and in Cuba. She serves on the documentary projects' evaluation committee at the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts and participates in Cine Ojo projects. Guarini earned her Ph.D. at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. She studied anthropological film under the direction of Jean Rouch in 1988 and had specialized seminars with Fernando Birri, Jean Louis Comolli, and Jorge Prelorán. She is a researcher at CONICET, and professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires. She also teaches courses at the Film Centre and the International Film and Television School, a school of audiovisual media in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, and has been a visiting professor in France and Spain. With Marcelo Céspedes, she founded the production company Cine Ojo (1986) and the Festival y Forum DocBuenosAires (2001). She worked as a producer with many Argentine directors, including Andrés Di Tella, Mouján Alejandro Fernandez, Pedro Fernandez Mouján, Jorge Goldenberg, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Cristian Pauls, and Sergio Wolf. For her work in film, Guarini has won prizes at major national and international festivals.