Fany de la Chica

Her films and documentaries have been selected in more than one hundred film festivals, received ten awards, and have been broadcast in Denmark and Spain. Her film, Something to Believe in, was (...) presented at the Academy, won an Emmy at the College Awards from the Television Academy Foundation, and was selected at Oscar-qualifying festivals: Cinequest, Nashville Film Festival, and Telluride amongst others. De la Chica’s short film, The Looking Ceremony, won the NewView award organized by Glamour magazine and was selected at the San Diego Latino Film Festival or the European Film Festival of Seville, and her documentary, Round Trip, was shortlisted for the Academy Awards in Spain and received a funding award from the Culture Ministry. Her work has been published in the magazine Cinewoman, MovieMaker, Filmthreat, and at the Hollywood Reporter. She was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus and Torino Film Lab with her project for the feature film Al Alba. Her documentaries One day in Smara and The Visit sum seventy screenings at international festivals and awards at the London International Documentary Festival, the International Film Festival for Human Rights Colombia, and the Houston International Film Festival. Her film Mother & Daughter has been exhibited in Art Galleries in New York and Spain and the short film Santo Cerro that she produced and co-wrote with Rod Llaverias was selected at Miami Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival. She has been selected as one of the artists for the LIFEWTR campaign "Lifeunseen" to direct a film and has made branded content for other brands like The Outnet or Google Squared. She holds an MFA in ​Screenwriting at Columbia University of New York. As an educator, she has been selected for a teaching Art Residency with Project Art, worked as a film teacher assistant at Columbia University with Richard Peña and as a film teacher, for the education program at Lincoln Center.