Mexican filmmaker Dana Rotberg has lived and worked as a director, writer and producer in Mexico, France and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is now based in New Zealand.

Dana's first film was the feature-length documentary Elvira Luz Cruz: Pema Maxima (1985) which was awarded Best Documentary by the Mexican Film Academy and the Bochica de Oro Award for Best Latin-American Documentary, Colombia. In 1989, she wrote and directed the feature film Intimacy.

Dana has thrice been given the prestigious honour of opening the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes International Film Festival. The first time was as Director of Angel de Fuego (1992) and the twice more as Producer of Man, God and the Monster (1994) and The Perfect Circle (1997). The latter film also won the François Chalais Award and the Cannes Junior Prix at Cannes that year as well as many other prestigious awards.

In 2000 Dana directed and co-wrote the Mexican feature film Otilia Rauda which won the NHK Filmmaker's Award at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2004, after watching the movie Whale Rider, Dana moved to New Zealand where she now resides.

She released in 2013, her new feature WHITE LIES.

Source:
www.whiteliesthemovie.com/crew/