Lorena Cervera Ferrer is a filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. She is doing a practice-based PhD in Film Studies at University College London, funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership. Her research looks at Latin American women’s documentary from 1975 to 1994. She has presented her work at conferences, such as Visible Evidence and LASA, and has published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Alphaville. Journal of Film and Screen Media, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, and Feminist Media Studies. In 2021, she co-organized the international conference Cozinhando imagens, tejiendo feminismos. Latin American Feminist Film and Visual Art Collectives, from which she has co-edited a section for Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. Lorena is also a documentary filmmaker and has directed Pilas (2019) and co-directed #PrecarityStory (2020). Currently she is working on her latest film, Processing Images from Caracas.
Since 2021, Lorena teaches lectures, seminars, and workshops for the following undergraduate modules at AUB: Contextual and Theoretical Studies, Film Fundamentals, Specialist Practice. She is the unit leader of Production in Practice and the documentary tutor for Graduation Films.
Documentary cinema, women's cinema, feminist filmmaking, Latin American political cinemas, activist films
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SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
A Film by Cine Mujer, video-essay, 2020
#PrecarityStory, short documentary, 2020
PILAS, short documentary, 2019
Changing of the Guard, short documentary, 2018
Rajvi, short documentary, 2017
Dr. Moisès Broggi: Ethical Science, feature-length documentary, 2011
25 Years of UNESCO, promotional video, 2009
Querida Doña Elena, feature-length documentary, 2009
A les fosques, short documentary, 2009