Astrid Rondero studied at Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC-UNAM) in Mexico City.

 

She has worked in the film industry as a Script Supervisor and First Assistant Director since 2005, in several Mexican Films (Northless 2008, Año bisiesto 2010, Marcelino 2012)

 

As a filmmaker among other short films stand “Julieta” (2006) and “In Still Waters” (2011), the last was nominated for the Silver Ariel by the Mexican Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences as “Best Short Film” 2011.

 

Her short film “In Still Waters” was awarded with FOMENTO Y COINVERSIONES (Mexican Fund for Artistic Projects), FONCA 2009 and was selected at the Editing Studio of BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS 2010.

 

In Still Waters was selected at competition in more than 25 film festivals around the world.

 

The Film won “Best Short film” at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, VLAFF 2012.

 

Later, she received the Grant Young Art Creators, FONCA (Mexican Fund for the Arts) 2012 to write the script of “The Darkest Days of Us”.

 

With this same project she received the Fund for Developing Film Projects awarded by the Mexican Film Institute, IMCINE 2013.

 

At the end of 2013 she received alongside her co-writer Lila Nieto, the First Prize for Best Screen Play awarded by Matilde Landeta Foundation, Women in Film Fund, for the same project “The Darkest Days of Us”.

 

In 2014 she was invited for a second time at the Berlinale Talents, this time “The Darkest Days of Us” was Selected for the Script Station, 2014.

 

She received the Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund, CIFF 2014 and "The Darkest Days of Us" was selected to be part of the TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE 2015.

 

Recently she received the Fund FOPROCINE (Fund for the Production of Quality Films) of the Mexican Film Institute to produce her first feature “The Darkest Days of Us”

 

Her short film “Julieta”, is analyzed in the book about Mexican Cinema “La ilusión del cine mexicano”, from the renown film critic Jorge Ayala Blanco, Ed. Oceano, 2013.