Ana Isabel Fernández is a Mexican writer, filmmaker, and scholar. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 2012 she moved to the United States to pursue a Master’s in Mexican American studies and a Ph.D. in American studies. She is the author of 366, a book written by hand from January 17, 2020 to January 15, 2021, as she was finishing her doctoral dissertation and pregnant with her daughter.
In collaboration with Juan Pablo González and Ilana Coleman, Fernández also wrote the script for the film Dos Estaciones, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2022) and which won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Screenwriting in a North American Narrative Feature in Outfest Los Angeles.
While at MacDowell, she worked on Agua Caliente, a feature length screenplay developed in collaboration with Juan Pablo González. The film will be shot in summer 2025 and will be directed by both Fernández and González. In fall 2024, Fernández will join UCLA's Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media as an adjunct assistant professor.
