Venezuela
Margot Benacerraf, award-winning Venezuelan documentarian, dies at 97
Her hypnotic “Araya,” a visual tone poem chronicling the daily lives of salt workers on an austere peninsula in Venezuela, shared the critics’ prize at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
Margot Benacerraf, a critically acclaimed Venezuelan documentary filmmaker whose hypnotic “Araya,” a visual tone poem chronicling the daily lives of salt workers on an austere peninsula on her country’s coast, shared the critics’ prize at the 1959 Ca... [4751 chars]