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Alejandra Márquez Abella was born on 30 April 1982 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. She is a writer and director, known for Northern Skies Over Empty Space (2022), The Good Girls (2018) and Semana Santa (2015).
Writer/director Alejandra Márquez Abella leapt at the chance to make it. The award-winning filmmaker of Northern Skies Over Empty Space first learned about Hernández’s remarkable story more...
Filmmaker Alejandra Márquez Abella learned of José Hernández 15 years ago when his inspirational story made headlines: Hernández, who toiled in the fields as a child alongside his family, is the first migrant farmworker to become a NASA astronaut and go into space — a lifelong dream he realized after nearly a decade of perseverance and ...
Alejandra Márquez Abella spoke with Screen Rant about A Million Miles Away, working with Hernández and being inspired by his story. Abella also shared why she never imagined anyone other than Salazar and Peña taking on these roles as well as filming in Mexico.
Former NASA astronaut José Hernández, left, and film director Alejandra Márquez Abella together at the Four Seasons in Hollywood.
Together with Issa López, Tatiana Huezo, Fernanda Valadez, and Natalia López Gallardo, Márquez Abella is one of the most prominent members of a new generation of Mexican filmmakers who are building on the legacy of Alejandro Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón.
Oct 21, 2018 · A profile of Mexico’s Alejandra Marquez Abella, whose ‘The Good Girls,” world premiered in Toronto’s prestige Platform section.
