Adele Schmidt

Adele Schmidt was born in 1960 in Bonn, Germany. She received a Master's Degree in Political Science and German and Spanish Phiology from Friedrich-Wilhelms University at Bonn in 1988.

Since 1987, Adele has worked as a journalist in both Bonn and Berlin. In 1990, she relocated to Mexico City to pursue her career as a journalist and begin her study of filmmaking at the Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica (CCC).

Adele Schmidt has been making documentaries in film and video since 1992, the most outstanding being Juana's Journey, which was nominated for an Ariel Award in Mexico for Best Short Documentary of 1997.

Adele's works have been chosen to participate in numerous national and international film festivals. Since 1997, she has worked as a professor of Documentary Filmmaking and Scriptwriting at the CCC and is one of the coordinators of a biannual documentary film festival - Sights of the Turn of the Century: New Tendencies in Documentary Cinema.

In January 1999, Adele completed the filming of her new documentary, Refuge Mexico: The Mennonite Community in Chihuahua.

Related Links
Media Rights: Juana's Journey
Journey Films
International Movie Database

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