Mariana Blanco

Filmmaker

Los Angeles, California, United States

Mariana Blanco is a filmmaker born in Costa Rica and based in Los Angeles. As a director, she has created films for Participant, Vice+, La Reyna, The Sundance Institute, American Express and The Gates Foundation, and won a nomination for TED’s Ads Worth Spreading. As an editor, her feature length documentary work includes: THE BARKLEY MARATHONS (Austin Film Festival Audience Award, Hot Docs Top 20), I AM SUN MU (Salem Film Festival Best Editing, DMZ International premiere and showings at IDFA, DOC NYC, Human Rights Watch Film Festival), SHAKE THE DUST (Exec Produced by Nas), NEVER SURRENDER: A GALAXY QUEST DOCUMENTARY. Her short form editing work includes: TRANSFORMATION (Creative Arts Emmy Nominee) for MTV, as well as work for Nike, Chobani, Alicia Keyes, Janelle Monae, Red Bull and more. She is currently editing HELLFIGHTER, a feature documentary directed by Elegance Bratton. Her first word was iguana.