Overview
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.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
- PhD in Film Studies (practice-based). Thesis title: “Latin American Women’s Documentary Cinema: Contexts, Processes, and Forms, 1975-1994.” (UCL. LAHP Studentship)
- Diploma in Creative Documentary (University del Valle (Colombia). Ibermedia Scholarship)
- MA (Distinction) in Innovation and Quality in Television (University Pompeu Fabra (Spain). Academic Excellence Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies from La Caixa)
- BA (First Class Honours) in Journalism (University of Valencia (Spain). Scholarship for Graduate Studies from the Spanish Ministry of Education)
Teaching
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.
Courses
Research
Research Interests and Projects
Documentary cinema, women's cinema, feminist filmmaking, Latin American political cinemas, activist films
PUBLICATIONS:
- Cervera Ferrer, Lorena. “Towards a Latin American Feminist Cinema: The Case of Cine Mujer in Colombia.” Alphaville. Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 20, 2020.
- Cervera Ferrer, Lorena. “Militancy, Feminism and Cinema: The Case of Grupo Feminista Miércoles.” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 2022.
- Cervera Ferrer, Lorena. “Reproductive Rights, Othered Women, and the Making of Feminist Documentary in Latin America.” Feminist Media Studies, 2022.
- Cervera Ferrer, Lorena, Sonia Kerfa, and Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto (eds.). “Latin American Feminist Film and Visual Art Collectives.” In Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 2022.
- Cervera Ferrer, Lorena. “Tres aproximaciones al cine documental político hecho por mujeres de América Latina entre 1975 y 1994.” Orbis Tertius, 2023.
- Cervera Ferrer, Lorena and Isabel Seguí. “#PrecarityStory: Academic Casualisation and Feminist Filmmaking.” In Constructions of the Real, edited by Catherine Gough-Brady et al. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2023.
Professional Engagement
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
Memberships
Professional Memberships
- DOCMA. Spanish Documentary Cinema Association.
- RAMA. Latin American Women’s Audiovisual Research Network.
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).
- Society of Latin American Studies (SLAS).
Media Coverage
- Precariedad y juventud, unidas también en la academia - https://www.malagahoy.es/festival-cine-malaga/Precariedad-juventud-unidas-academia-festival-Malaga_0_1581743897.html
- La precariedad de las Universidades del Reino Unido - https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/europa-abierta/europa-abierta-investigadora-profesora-mujer-limpieza-precariedad-universidades-del-reino-unido-corto/5941050/