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Dr Lorena Cervera

Senior LecturerPhD, MA, BA
Email me: lcervera@aub.ac.uk

Overview

Lorena Cervera Ferrer is a filmmaker, researcher, and lecturer. She holds a practice-based PhD in Film Studies from University College London, which was 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, Screen, and LASA, and has published several chapters and articles, including 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-organised 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 Processing Images from Caracas (2023), and co-directed #PrecarityStory (2020).

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Contact:

Name: Dr Lorena Cervera she/her
Email: lcervera@aub.ac.uk
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2348-0193

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, Ibermedia Scholarship)
  • MA (Distinction) in Innovation and Quality in Television (University Pompeu Fabra, Academic Excellence Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies from La Caixa)
  • BA (First Class Honours) in Journalism (University of Valencia, 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

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Professional Engagement

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

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