Born in Mexico City and graduated from the Center for Film Studies in the University of Mexico. She has, since then, completed a great number of films as script writer, producer, and director. She directed her first short film La Boquilla, in 1978, followed by Iztacalco, Campamento 2 de Octubre (1979), Cerca de lo Lejos (1982), Veracruz 1914 - Memória de Uma Invasão (1988), El Caso Molinet (1993), and El Círculo Eterno: Eisenstein en México (1997).
