Patricia Cardoso

Patricia Cardoso is an award-winning director who has directed a wide range of films and episodes for the screen. Her first feature film, REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES, was a box office and critical success and has become a landmark in US cinema. Cardoso's directing credits include episodes of THE SOCIETY, QUEEN SUGAR, WILL TRENT, THE WATCHFUL EYE, TALES OF THE CITY, the pilot for HARLAN COBEN'S SHELTER for Amazon Prime, and the feature EL PASEO DE TERESA -the largest box office for a woman director in Colombia. Cardoso is an anthropologist, an archaeologist, and a Fulbright scholar. Cardoso's anthropological approach to directing guides her film and television work. Cardoso was the first Latinx woman director to have a film included in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry and to win a Student Academy Award® and a Sundance Audience Award. She is a graduate of UCLA's film school and was director of Sundance's Latin American program for five years. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Cardoso is a professor at UC Riverside and previously taught at USC and UCLA. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, The British Film Academy, the Television Academy, and the Directors Guild of America.