Alexandra Cuesta

Alexandra Cuesta

Born 1980
Cuenca, Ecuador

Biography

She is a director and photographer. She has an MFA in Film and Video from CalArts – California Institute of the Arts, and a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 2018 she was granted a Guggenheim scholarship in Film and Video. Her 16 mm films have won awards and were shown at different international festivals. Territory (2016), her first feature, premiered as part of the Official Selection of the FIDMarseille Festival and screened at important festivals such as FICValdivia, Viennale and BAFICI, among others. Her works combine experimental film traditions with documentary practices, and are developed from an improvisation process.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata

Camerawoman

Movies
2014

Bella Vista

Documentaries
2023

Manu: A Visual Album

2016

Territorio

Short
2007

Recordando el ayer

Director

Producer

Documentaries
2023

Manu: A Visual Album

Short
2007

Recordando el ayer

Editor

Documentaries
2023

Manu: A Visual Album

Short
2007

Recordando el ayer

Screenwriter

Documentaries
2016

Territorio