CECILIA BARRIONUEVO

Festival Bridges: Connecting Filmmakers and Audiences 

Feb. 04 2020

MassArt Design and Media Center

CECILIA BARRIONUEVO | (Córdoba, Argentina, 1975). Cecilia is the Artistic Director of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival where she has been a programmer since 2010. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from Universidad de Córdoba and a Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In 2013 she received the Leo Dratfield Professional Development Fellowship to participate in the Flaherty Film Seminar, NY.

She is co-programer with Carlos A. Gutiérrez, for Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, guest curator in DocumentaMadrid  (Spain) and she has collaborated as a guest programmer for other festivals, institutions and museums in Uruguay, Spain, Argentina and USA.

She’s co-editor of the “Las Naves Cine” collection dedicated to cinema and she has contributed with film reviews and essays in several cultural publications, magazines and books. She has edited the books “El tiempo detenido”, by Scott Foundas and “Film Comment, una antología”.

She has been a jury member in numerous international film festivals such as Jeonju Film Festival, Valdivia International Film Festival, Malaga Film Festival, Doclisboa International Film Festival, as well as leading workshops, seminars and talks in Harvard Film Archive, Talent Press Buenos Aires, Locarno Industry Academy International Sao Paulo, and Tabakalera Spain.