Award-winning Chilean Journalist, VISUAL STORYTELLER, and Educator who WORKS ON nuanced PROJECTS about extraordinary people from underprivileged communities seldom featured in the mainstream media.
She worked as a broadcast journalist for seven years in Chile’s most prestigious TV stations, where she travelled through Latin America covering Breaking News and developing Special Reports about the communities those current events affected. This experience led her to nonfiction filmmaking.
Her short documentary The Women and the Sea won Best International Latino Short Film at NYC’s Latin Film Market and the Latino Short Documentary Award at Texas’ Festival de Cine Latinoamericano.
she has filmed documentaries screened at Academy Award-qualifying film festivals like St. Louis International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and Reel Sisters of the Diaspora.
She holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University and is currently the university of wisconsin-milwaukee’s journalism, advertising and media studies program undergraduate director. she also teaches tv news reporting, Documentary Filmmaking and Video Storytelling as a full-time lecturer. Her students have won numerous awards for projects created in her classes.
