We Keep On Looking For You

About the director

Artist/self-taught filmmaker: director, writer, editor, producer. I was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and graduated both from Media Studies (Andres Bello Catholic University) as well as Digital photography (The Roberto Mata School). At twenty three -year 2016- I migrated from my native country out of necessity and unexpectedly stayed in New York City when an opportunity appeared, my home for the past 9 years. To fight diasporic conditions and find others to collaborate, I co-founded EL FANTASMA, a Venezuelan film collective/studio which now has under its arms more than ten premiered shorts and two finished features. El Sonido Es El Cuerpo “Sound Is The Body”, my first long-form film, currently awaits release as I develop a second one, Fiebre Karibe “Karibbean Fever”, while continuing to work on other parallel projects.

My film work usually entails speculative fictions that tackle topics such as individual/collective migration (Venezuelan), dystopian imaginations, historical re-imagining, and repressed desires, emotions & malaises as consequences of political/collective environments. These films have screened and won awards at international film festivals including Locarno, Brussels, Sitges, Cinélatino Toulouse, Tacoma Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Uruguay Film Festival, Chicago Latino FF, among others. I’m a recipient of the Jerome Production Grant, the Venezuelan National Film Fund, and have participated in programs such as the Locarno Open Doors, Locarno Spring Academy, Tres Puertos Lab and the CineQuaNon Residency. I was recently an invited artist at the University of Iowa Cinematic Arts department.