Marina Stavenhagen (born July 16, 1962 in Mexico City) is a Mexican screenwriter, writer, and film director.

She is the daughter of anthropologists Rodolfo Stavenhagen and María Eugenia Vargas.

[1] Her work has focused on social themes in Mexico, such as student movements and guerrillas.

[5] In 2005, she wrote the screenplay for a documentary about revolutionary Mexican schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas.

[6] From 2007 to 2012, she was the director of the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE, Mexican Institute of Cinematography).