Luisa Mora Fernández

Luisa Mora Fernández

Screenwriter

Bio

Luisa Mora Fernández (San José, 1989). Costa Rican screenwriter, author and podcast producer working as a script consultant. She is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied at Guionarte screenwriting school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and complemented her education with courses in the subjects of History of Art, History of Theater, History of Cinema, Literature amongst others.

She is a published author of short stories and poetry. In her native San José, she designed and facilitated multiple workshops in screenwriting and podcasting and pursued a career as a script advisor for filmmakers in need of guidance and training. To this day she has worked in such a way for projects in the United States, Italy, Sweden, Perú and Costa Rica.

Luz Nocturna, the short film she co-wrote with director Kim Torres, was in competition for Palm D’Or at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. She has co-written four feature length scripts: Madame Godin directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (currently in early development), 4EBER, directed by Ximena Valdivia (currently under advanced development), Las Primeras, directed by Valentina Maurel (currently in pre-production), and If We Don’t Burn How Do We Light Up the Night, directed by Kim Torres (currently in pre-production). As a script consultant she has worked closely with projects such as Delirio, by director Alexandra Latishev, Los Hombres Morimos Antes, by director Federico Montero, and The Wolf Will Tear You Immaculate Hands, by director Nathalie Alvarez Mesén, as well as many other short films, feature length films and documentaries.

Her personal work as a filmmaker consists mostly of video-poetry, video-art, sound installation and sound narrative.

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