Eva Aridjis

Eva Aridjis Fuentes is a Mexican and American filmmaker. She attended the American School Foundation in Mexico City, Princeton University, and New York University. She has made many prize-winning short and feature-length films. Early life and education Born in the Netherlands, raised in Mexico City, and now living in New York City, Aridjis Fuentes is the daughter of Mexican poet and novelist, Homero Aridjis, and American environmental activist and translator, Betty Ferber. Her sister is writer Chloe Aridjis. Aridjis Fuentes left Mexico City when she was 18 to study Anthropology and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she wrote her thesis on the concepts of the self and other in the works of Borges, Cortázar, Baudelaire and Lacan. She also took all of the film classes on offer, and worked as Professor P. Adams Sitney's assistant for three years. She then earned an MFA in Film and Television at New York University, where she focused on directing and writing.