The only woman to have broken into the male-dominated Mexican film industry during its ?golden age? (1930-50s), Landeta directed three successful fictional features but was forced to give up her career by male bias. Estranged from filmmaking for 40 years, she was rediscovered as a pioneer woman filmmaker in the 1970s and 1980s and finally received national tributes and many international acknowledgments (at festivals in such locations as Havana, London, Tokyo, Barcelona, Cr?teil, Buenos Aires, and San Francisco).
Born into a distinguished family the same year that the Mexican revoluti
