Daniela Muñoz Barroso
Director
Cuban documentary filmmaker, producer and photographer. Graduated in DOP. from the University of Arts, Havana, 2017. Co-founder of the independent Cuban production company ESTUDIO ST, with which he has produced the short films “Tundra”, “El Rodeo”, “El niño de goma” and, recently, “La Historia se escribe de noche”, “Blue” and “4 Hoyos”, films selected at festivals such as Sundance, Rotterdam, Locarno, IDFA, Ji.hlava, Bogoshorts, BAFICI, Miami, among others.
Her films understand and explore cinema from the perspective of her hypoacusia, proposing new sound universes. An example of this is her feature documentary “Mafifa” (77′, 2021), premiered at Luminous of IDFA and selected in more than twenty festivals. It had its North American premiere at True/False Film Festival and screened at IDA Spring Docs/Nonfiction Access Initiative, 2023.
She also has directed the documentary short films “Gloom” (10ʹ, 2021), premiered at FICViña, Chile, with which she participated in the Open Doors program at the Locarno Film Festival, 2022. And recently finished “4 Holes”, with world premiere at IDFA, and North American premiere at RIDM, Canada, at the end of 2023.
She is currently working on the development of several hybrid and fiction feature films. Among them, Alejandro Alonso’s debut feature, “The Star”, a project selected for the Spanish Film Academy Residencies, and winner twice of the IDFA Bertha Fund, for development and production. She also participated in the Producers Lab at Locarno Open Doors, 2023. Her project “Silence diaries” was selected for the Spanish Academy Residencies, 2023-2024, and won the prestigious Chicken & Egg fund awarded to women documentary filmmakers for the research phase.
