Cecilia Barriga  

Cecilia Barriga is a Chilean-Spanish film director. She left home at 19 to study sound and image at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1983, she began her career in cinema, and in 1984 completed her university degree. In 1994, she moved to New York to further her studies in screenwriting and video art at Columbia University. Her 1991 film MEETING OF TWO QUEENS was shown at Montreal Women's Film and Video Festival and New York International Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film. The film served as Barriga’s attempt to re-edit and cut various scenes from films featuring Hollywood stars Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in order to create a space for lesbian identity politics and identity formation. It offers an alternative viewing of these famous Hollywood stars which effectively re-envisions them as icons of the burgeoning gay and lesbian movement of the early 1990s. She directed her first feature film TIME'S UP! in New York City and it premiered at the Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival. (01/20)