Ana Benítez Premieres 'Mama,' a Documentary About Cancer.

Ecuadorian filmmaker Ana Cristina Benítez premiered her first feature-length documentary, "Mama," at the Canadian Hot Docs festival in Toronto. This is an intimate diary that emerged unplanned, in the midst of the pandemic and after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. "This film wasn't conceived as a documentary. It didn't come from a development process, a scriptwriting process," Benítez explained in conversation with EFE at Hot Docs, the most…