Piccola Films

My name is Carolina and, from 2024, I am a National Geographic Explorer. I was born in Uruguay and I have also lived in Argentina, Mexico, Australia, and the USA. In 2015, I received a Fulbright Scholarship and I studied for a master's degree in Documentary Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. During the last twelve years, I have produced documentaries in different countries. My first feature-length documentary, “Trumphobia: what Both Sides Fear” (2019), was supported by the International Documentary Association (IDA) and received the Miller/Packan Fund for Post Production. It also received an Award of Merit at the Impact Docs Awards and has been screened at many film festivals in North and Latin America. In 2020, the movie was distributed in the US by Unified Pictures and in the UK by Kaleidoscope Film Distribution.

 

Additionally, my short documentary, “Exit the Shelter” (2018), received the Best Feature Award at the Los Angeles Television, Script and Film Festival, and the Award of Excellence at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards. In 2013, I directed Okurelo Cine, the first film exhibition for blind and deaf people in Uruguay, which received the Fund for Local Exhibitions from the Uruguayan Film Agency. Then, in 2014 and 2015, I was invited by the international film festival in Mexico, CinemaFest, to be in charge of the audiovisual accessibility and inclusion department. Since then, I have become the Executive Director of Okurelo, a leading organization that adapts films for blind and deaf people throughout Latin America and develops accessible cultural events. As a result of Okurelo, I have also received the Fund to Stimulate Artistic Training and Creation (Fefca) from the Ministry of Education and Culture in Uruguay to teach my know-how on how to make audiovisual content inclusive for everyone.

 

I have a BA degree in Communication and I worked for different production companies, mainly as a producer, camerawoman, and editor. In Uruguay, my most recent work as a producer was for the company Trailer Films, where I worked in the production department for several projects. Among them, are the documentary series on marine life conservation “Gulf of California” for Arte channel in Europe, the fiction “Higuita” for Netflix, and the documentary “Impossible Journey” for Vix. After that, I moved to Australia and worked on smaller projects, including a short documentary of Marine Biologist, Dr. Alex Schnell, for National Geographic.

 

In addition to the Fulbright scholarship (2015-2017), I also received the Jackson Wild Fellowship and Media Lab Fellowship (2022), a New York Film Academy scholarship (2015-2017), the Movilidad Mercosur scholarship (2012), the Studies of the US Institutes for Student Leaders Scholarship (2010) and the Scholarship for Academic Excellence of the University of Montevideo (2009-2012).

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I am currently working on my second feature documentary, "Invaded Water", supported by National Geographic, and I work as a freelance video director for J&Z, a company in the USA that distributes digital content created by AI.

 

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