María Fernanda Suárez de Garay, known professionally as Mafer Suárez, is a Mexican director, screenwriter, and producer. She is best known for her work on the Mexican television series Mujeres asesinas. She has received a lifetime achievement award from The Association of Women in Cinema and Television, and a Silver Cross for career from the GIFF.[1]
Suárez is from Tampico, Tamaulipas.[2] In 2019, she helped organize the first Independent Film Festival of Tamaulipas, held in Tampico.[3] Her younger sister is actress Cecilia Suárez. She has spoken against the concept of nepotism and said that she only works with Cecilia when the production demands it; Cecilia has expressed the same.[4]
| Year | Work | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | El abuelo Cheno y otras historias | [5] Producer | |
| 1997 | Nic Habana | [6] Short, as María Fernanda Suárez | |
| 1999 | / Juan, I forgot I don't remember | [7] Producer; as María Fernanda Suárez | |
| 2000 | Seré la de tus sueños / The One of Your Dreams I'll Be | [8] Video short | |
| 2004 | Lo de menos | Short | |
| 2006 | Sexo, amor y otras perversiones | [9] as María Fernanda Suárez; segment in anthology film | |
| 2015 | A Selfie | [10] Short |
| Year | Work | Director | Writer | Channel | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Cuentos para solitarios | MVS TV/Universal Pictures | ||||
| 2010 | Televisa | |||||
| 2008-2010 | Mujeres asesinas / Revolution | Televisa/Cablevisión | [11] Given a theatre adaptation in 2019, which Suárez also directed | |||
| 2011 | Televisa/Canal 2 | [12] | ||||
| 2018 | Niñas Promedio | Canal 11 | [13] Miniseries | |||
| 2019 | Playing with Fire | Telemundo/Netflix | [14] [15] |