Hilda Hidalgo

Hilda Hidalgo Xirinachs known as Hilda Hidalgo (Calle Blancos, Goicoechea, San José, Costa Rica, September 19, 1970) is a Costa Rican filmmaker. Hidalgo graduated as a director from the International School of Film and Television in Havana, Cuba, and has written and directed half a dozen short fiction and documentary films. Her fiction stories deal with desire, sensuality and the dreamlike.

In 2010 he made his name with his first feature film, Del amor y otros demonios, a nearly $2.5 million Costa Rican-Colombian co-production based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez, who gave him the rights to the novel while studying film with him in Cuba in 2003. The film was screened internationally during that year: it competed in the 32nd edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, the Moscow International Film Festival - also in its 32nd edition - and in one of the most important film festivals in East Asia, the Shanghai International Film Festival.Violeta al fin (Costa Rica-Mexico), her second feature film, starring Costa Rican leading actress Eugenia Chaverri and with the special participation of Mexican Gustavo Sánchez Parra, had its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival and was released theatrically in Costa Rica in November 2017 and in Mexico in May 2018.Hilda Hidalgo also directed the New School of Film and TV at Veritas University and is a professor at the School of Collective Communication Sciences at the University of Costa Rica. Currently, she works as a screenwriter, director and independent producer for her company Producciones La Tiorba, where she is developing her third feature film, entitled Niñas.