[3] After the death of her mother when she was three years of age, Landeta moved to San Luis, Potosí, where she was raised by her aunt and grandmother.

[4] Growing up in San Luis, she would play theater with her brother and friends, going so far as to hitting the other children if they didn't memorize their lines.

[5] During the Mexican Revolution, when she was about six years old, she witnessed a group of women and children scavenging for rice that had fallen on its way to her grandmother's estate.

[5] In 1931, her brother, Eduardo Landeta, began his career as an actor when he got hired to play a secondary character in a film directed by Arcady Boytler.

She sought to find a legitimate reason stating her inability to become an assistant director, so she approached the Secretary of Labor.

Using her tremendous sense of humor, Landeta dressed as a man, going so far as to wear a fake mustache to the set of La Guerra de los Pasteles.

The decision was made before a general meeting of the union that Landeta could be put to the task of becoming an assistant director, a position she held between 1945 and 1947.

Landeta's first full feature, Lola Casanova (1948), based on the anthropological novel by Rojas González was set to cost 16,000 pesos.

Landeta chose Lola Casanova as the topic for her directorial debut because she felt strongly about what the story represented.

It dealt with the lives and customs of indigenous Mexicans and a strong willed woman's effort to mediate their transition into society.

However, when she asked Eduardo Garduaño, a member of the National Bank of Cinematography for help, he convinced Landeta to sell her screenplay She took his advice sold the film to director Alfonso Corona Blake who renamed the film El camino de la vida.

Due to her current position, Landeta suffered from a shortage of talent crew and money, which made it nearly impossible for her to continue her work.

When asked why Faustino doesn't redeem the fallen Elena, Landeta responded with her trademark regard for feminine strength.

In one of her interviews she talks about an unplanned pregnancy which resulted in a sick baby who died after three days of giving birth.

[13] Landeta won an Ariel Award in 1957 for Best Original Story for the film El camino de la vida which she co-wrote with her brother Eduardo.

Landeta also taught at the Instituto Cinematográfico, the first film school in Mexico; and she presided the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of México twice.

1989–1990: Included in the series " Révolte, Révolution, Cinéma" in the Centro Georges Pompidou, París; paid homage to on a variety of occasions throughout the 1990s.

Her first and second feature films were adaptations of Francisco Rojas González's novel Lola Casanova (1948) and La Negra Angustias (1949).