I am a documentary filmmaker, writer, and lecturer. I currently work as Senior Lecturer in Film Production at Bournemouth Film School (Arts University Bournemouth). Previously, I taught at the University of Essex, the University of Westminster, University Arts London, and University College London.

I grew up in a small village and spent most of my childhood in an old cinema run by my family. There I developed a fascination for filmmaking. I studied Journalism (University of Valencia, Spain, 2008), completed a Master in Innovation and Quality in Television (University Pompeu Fabra, 2009), and a Diploma in Creative Documentary (University del Valle, Colombia, 2014). In 2022 I completed a practice-based PhD in Film Studies at University College London, which was funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. My research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Alphaville. Journal of Film and Screen Media, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, and Feminist Media Studies, and edited collections such as Women and Global Documentary, edited by Shilyh Warren and Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi. My first monograph, A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary, will be published by Routledge in 2025. I I have presented my research at conferences such as Visible Evidence, Screen Studies, and LASA. In 2021, I co-organized the international conference Cozinhando imagens, tejiendo feminismos. Latin American Feminist Film and Visual Art Collectives, from which I co-edited a namesake section for Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, published in 2022. 

I am also a practitioner and have worked as cinematographer, editor, and sound recordist for several films in Europe and the Americas, including Dr. Moisès Broggi (TV3, 2010), I wasn’t always dressed like this (D-AEP, 2014), and Changing of the Guard (Telesur, 2018). And I have directed three documentaries, Pilas (2019), #PrecarityStory (2020), and Processing Images from Caracas (2022), that have been awarded prizes at international film festivals and have been distributed via cinemas, television channels, and online platforms.

PUBLICATIONS

Academic Articles

2025. ‘Tracing the Archives of the Venezuelan Collectives Cine Urgente and Grupo Feminista Miércoles.’ Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema.

2022. ‘Militancy, Feminism and Cinema: The Case of Grupo Feminista Miércoles.’ Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 10, no. 2.

2022. ‘Reproductive Rights, Othered Women, and the Making of Feminist Documentary in Latin America.’ Feminist Media Studies.

2020. ‘Towards a Latin American Feminist Cinema: The Case of Cine Mujer in Colombia.’ Alphaville. Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 20.

Books [Forthcoming]

2026. A Companion to Latin American Documentary, edited by Michael Chanan and Lorena Cervera, Tamesis Books.

2025. A Feminist Counter-History of Latin American Documentary, Routledge.

Book Chapters

2025. ‘Diáspora, género y sexualidad: Pioneras del giro subjetivo en el documental latinoamericano.’ In Mujeres y cine en Iberoamérica, edited by Elena Oroz et al., Peter Lang.

2025. ‘Affective Relations and First-Person Enunciation: Daughters/Filmmakers Reformulate the Latin American Documentary.’ In Women and Documentary: Global Practices, Global Perspectives, edited by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh Warren, Bloomsbury Press.

2024. ‘Documentar a las mujeres a través de la fotografía y el cine documental: El ejemplo de Franca Donda en Venezuela.’ In Consentir, troubler ou déconstruire le genre : vers de nouvelles voies d’émancipation(s) intime(s) dans le monde Hispanique contemporain?, edited by Bénédicte Brémard, Orbis Tertius.

2023. ‘#PrecarityStory:Academic Casualisation and Feminist Filmmaking.’ In Constructions of the Real. Intersections of Documentary-Based Film Practice and Theory, edited by Catherine Gough-Brady et al., Bristol: Intellect Books.

2023. ‘Tres aproximaciones al cine documental hecho por mujeres de América Latina entre 1975 y 1994.’ In Le Geste Documentaire des Réalisatrices Amérique Latine-Espagne, edited by Sonia Kerfa and Angélique Gómez Muller. Dijon: Orbis Tertius.

Edited Issues

2025. ‘Community Building Filmmaking.’ MIRAJ, no. 14. [In preparation]

2022. ‘Latin American Feminist Film and Visual Art Collectives.’ Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 61.

CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND TALKS