Carolina Rivera – Mexican Writter
Carolina has a major in Communication Sciences at the ITESO in Guadalajara, Jalisco. She also studied Screenwriting at the University of Californa, Los Angeles (UCLA). She has dedicated the last years of her professional career working on film and television industry.
In television she has written for Sesame Street Mexico, Disney Club Mexico, the television show Ellas son… La Alegría del Hogar (adapted in the United States as Devious Maids), Bienes Raíces (Seasons 1 and 2) and Estado de Gracia (Season 1).
For Azteca Television, Rivera has been Head Writer in Huérfanas, a soap opera aired in Azteca13 on april, 2011, and Amor Cautivo, aired on May, 2012.
For Cadena 3, Carolina wrote the soap opera Amor sin reservas, aired in 2014.
She worked as Chief of Development Projects and Head Writer for ONCETV, a public television company in Mexico, where she started ONCE NIÑOS as a founder.
She wrote for the tv shows Bizbirije, Mi Gran Amigo, and the television series Camino a casa and El Diván de Valentina, which was a finalist at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada.
In the film industry, she worked as Editor-in-Chief at the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) and Videocine Distribución.
Carolina won an Ariel Award as “Best Original Screenplay”, “Best Original Story” and “Best Original Song” for the feature film Cilantro and Perejil.
In 1998, she attended the Sundance workshop titled Bolero para Margarita and has coordinated workshops such as the First Workshop of Feature Film Screenwriting of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography, First Screenwriting Workshop of the master Syd Field.
The screenplay that wrote for Enemigos Intímos won the “Best Iberoamerican Screenplay” award by the Motion Picture Association.
Carolina has been juror in the “Outstanding Drama Series” and “Outstanding Television Movie” categories for the International Emmy Awards.
She participated as a designer and professor of the First Soap Opera Course of the Televisa company. Also, she has been an associate professor of the Screenplay Course in the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City for 6 years.
Rivera is currently living in Los Angeles, California where she is working as a writer in the multi-awarded television series Jane, the Virgin.
