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Born as Bertha Navarro Solares on April 04, 1943 in Mexico City. She is a Mexican film director, producer, and executive producer best known for Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1973), Cronos (1993), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006). Attended Colegio Americano in 1950. During the 1960s and previously to study Anthropology at Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, she lived in San Francisco and Paris. In 1967 she founded Cine 70 with her former husband Paul Leduc (film director), Rafael Castañedo, and cinematographer Alexis Rivas, to create documentaries for the 1968 Olympic Games that took place in Mexico City. After directing, she devoted herself to film production. Between 1986-1989 cofounded the Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano with the writer Gabriel García Márquez and started to coordinate screenwriting workshops with the Sundance Institute.

During the shooting of Cabeza de Vaca (film) (1991) she met Guillermo del Toro, then a makeup artist who was friend of her brother Guillermo Navarro, the renowned Mexican cinematographer. Later in 1993, she choose to support the career of Guillermo del Toro with his opera prima Cronos. Since then, they developed a successful professional relationship, and in 1998 together with Alfonso Cuarón founded the production company Tequila Gang.

She also has produced films for her former husband Paul Leduc (film director), and other Mexican filmmakers as Carlos Carrera, Antonio Urrutia and Sebastián Cordero. Awarded with many film awards and recognized in 2008 with the Mayahuel de Plata for her extensive career and promoter of Ibero-American cinema.

In 2015, she received a Golden Ariel from the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas for her contribution to the Mexican film industry.

Personal life
She was married with Paul Leduc (film director) and together they had a daughter in 1969, the film director, screenwriter, and film editor Valentina Leduc Navarro. Sister of the renowned cinematographer Guillermo Navarro.