Piccola Films

My name is Carolina Sosa, and I'm a National Geographic Explorer and storyteller born in Uruguay. I have also lived in Argentina, Mexico, Australia, and the United States, where I completed my master's degree in Documentary Filmmaking in Los Angeles. For the past ten years, I have produced documentaries in different countries. I am a Fulbright scholar, a Jackson Wild Fellow twice, and in 2025, I was selected to participate in National Geographic's Field Ready Program, where I received five months of training to work on natural history documentaries.

 

I am currently promoting my second feature documentary, Invaded Water, supported by the National Geographic Society, which will premiere at the Santiago Wild Film Festival in May 2025. The film is about IUU fishing in Uruguay and has a strong impact campaign to change the law of illegal fishing in the country. 

 

I'm an active member of the International Documentary Association (IDA), and my first feature-length documentary, Trumphobia: What Both Sides Fear (2019), was fiscally sponsored by IDA. Trumphobia was awarded the Miller/Packan Post-Production Fund in 2018 and also received a Merit Award at the Impact Docs Awards. The film has screened at numerous film festivals in North and Latin America, and in 2020, it was distributed in the US by Unified Pictures and in the UK by Kaleidoscope Film Distribution. Additionally, my short film, Exit the Shelter, received the Best Film Award at the Los Angeles TV, Script and Film Festival and the Excellence Award at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards in 2018.

 

Moreover, 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. Because of this, I have participated in the Inclusion Action Coalition of Jackson Wild and given lectures on how to make the wildlife filmmaking industry more accessible and inclusive.

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I have a BA in communication and have worked for various production companies, primarily as a producer, camera operator, and editor. My most recent job was as a production assistant and second camera operator for one of the episodes of the upcoming series Home on National Geographic, produced by BBC Studios. In Uruguay, my most recent work as a producer was for Trailer Films, where I worked in the production department for several projects. These included the documentary series on marine wildlife conservation Gulf of California for Arte channel in Europe, the first Uruguayan original Netflix documentary Higuita, and the documentary Impossible Journey for Vix.

 

In addition to the Fulbright scholarship (2015-2017), the Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellowship (2022), I also received 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).​