Elisa Miller is an award-winning cinematographer.
She is the first Mexican female winner of the Golden Palm

Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

 for a short fiction feature film in the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

 titled "Ver llover".
"Watching it Rain," a third year school project filmed in Yautepec, Morelos, Mexico also won first prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia 2006;
Best fiction short at the "Femina 2007" (Brazil) movie festival;
the Norman McLaren (Canada) award;
Coral award for best short fiction feature at the 2007 Habana Latinamerican Film Festival;
Ariel award by the Mexican Academy of Film science and arts, etc.

Elisa's short film "Roma" has also won important prizes: The Garcia Bross prize in Morelia Film Fest 2008, Best script in the Poitiers (France) film fest, in addition to prizes in Brazil and Portugal.