She is a graduate of CUEC-UNAM and has completed postgraduate studies in Documentary Film at the Moscow Film Institute, and in New Technologies at the University of Southern California. She has been a professor at UAM Xochimilco and is a founding professor of the CUEC-ENAP-UNAM Master's Degree in Documentary Studies. She has directed and produced about thirty documentaries and fictions in Calacas y Palomas, the film and video company she founded with Leopoldo Best. Her work reflects current issues faced by Mexican society, with special emphasis on the gender vision, the change in sexual behavior and the violation of reproductive rights. Her work as a documentary filmmaker became known nationally and internationally with No les pedimos un viaje a la Luna, about the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, which won her the Ariel Award, as well as other awards in Mexico and abroad. In 1999, she made En el país de no pasa nada, her first fiction feature film, winner of three awards at the XV International Film Festival in Guadalajara and selected for several international festivals. She was director of the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos de la UNAM, during the period 2015-2019.