- She studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.
- Member of the Unión Feminista Argentina.
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1994
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1990.
- Worked as a theatrical producer in the 1950's.
- Her great-grandfather, German Argentine immigrant Otto Bemberg founded the largest brewery Quilmes Brewery in 1888.
- Among her films, she wrote and directed Señora de nadie in 1982, Camila in 1984 (about the persecution and execution of a priest and his lover ordered by Argentine military officer and politician Juan Manuel de Rosas and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film), Miss Mary in 1986 (featuring British actress Julie Christie), and Yo, la peor de todas in 1990 (about the life of Juana Inés de la Cruz, with French actress Dominique Sanda, Argentine actor Héctor Alterio and Spanish actress Assumpta Serna). Bemberg's films were widely popular due to their melodramatic elements (such as Camila), and enjoyed much commercial success. Throughout her career Bemberg worked with longtime producer Lita Stantic, costume designer Graciela Galan and Voytec, a London-based stage design firm.
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- After her film "Señora de nadie" was censored by the military regime, she went to New York to study acting from Lee Strasberg. Bemberg used that time to understand how to approach a film from an actor's perspective.
- Film scholars have noted that Bemberg's entire body of work contains autobiographical elements.
- Before her death, she bequeathed her personal art collection to the National Museum of Fine Arts.
- Bemberg never received a high school diploma or a college degree. She was privately tutored by a governess.
- In 1971, Bemberg teamed up with another feminist to create the UFA (Union Feminista Argentina). Though the UFA disbanded after two years due to government enforced curfews, the impact made by the meetings was important because it was a way for young women to explore feminist thought in a time where divorce was difficult, abortion was illegal, and women's shelters were non existent.
- In her work, she specialized in portraying famous Argentine women and the Argentine upper class.
- Bemberg was inspired by French novelist and art theorist André Malraux, who visited her aunt's Villa Ocampo in 1959, and particularly his belief that "one must live what one believes".
- In 1970, she wrote the script for Raúl de la Torre's Crónica de una señora, a successful film about the Argentine upper class with Graciela Borges and Lautaro Murúa, and in 1975 the script for Fernando Ayala's Triangle of Four.
- In 1959, she established and managed Buenos Aires's Teatro Del Globo with her associate, Catalina Wolff.
- On October 17, 1945, she married Carlos Miguens, an architect. Following their marriage and in the midst of the Juan Perón era, the couple moved to Spain, where they had four children before returning to Argentina. One of them, Carlos Miguens Bemberg, would become a well-known businessman.
- She was one of the founders of the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Feminist Union in Argentina.
- Bemberg focused on feminism, with regards to the gender debate and cinematic gaze.
- In 1949, Bemberg became involved with the previously named Smart Theater and later renamed the Astral Theater.
- Her original efforts to form feminist groups were muffled by the military regime that superseded Perón in the mid-1950s.
- Bemberg was one of the first Argentine female directors with a powerful presence both in the filmmaking and the intellectual world of Latin America, particularly during her most active period, from 1970 to 1990.
- Her vast legacy extends to the 21st Century, with Bemberg being hailed as arguably Argentina's foremost female director.
- Before her death, she bequeathed her personal art collection to the National Museum of Fine.
- Her last film was 1993's De eso no se habla, starring Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni.
- Her movie "Señora de nadie" was featured at the Taormina and Panama Film Festival.
- Throughout her career Bemberg worked with longtime producer Lita Stantic, costume designer Graciela Galan and Voytec, a London-based stage design firm.
- Two of her films were featured at the Venice Film Festival.
- Bemberg decided to pursue directing because she was disappointed with how her semi-autobiographical screenplays were interpreted by male directors. Bemberg states "I realized the story belongs to the director rather than the screenwriter, so I decided to direct.".
- Her film "Camila" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
- She received Konex Awards in 1984 and 1991 and the Honour Konex in 2001, and multiple awards in international film festivals.
- Not all of Bemberg's films were focused on historical events and when they did, Bemberg explains in an interview, she intended to "situate the viewer in the period. What interests me is the human beings, not the meticulous and obsessive reconstruction of facsimiles of their surroundings.".
- At the end of her life, Bemberg was working on a script, based on the story El impostor by Silvina Ocampo, a distant relative of hers, which was made into a film in 1997 directed by her longtime collaborator Alejandro Maci.
- Scholar Bruce Williams has stated that all of Bemberg's films show female protagonists transgressing the boundaries and limits of their societies. Her feminist films depict women struggling to assume their place in patriarchal settings. With respect to the formal aspects of her films, Bemberg set her own aesthetics, such as the "woman's look", which she considered was lacking in films and especially in Latin American films.
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