Laura Huertas Millán

The artist and filmmaker is based in Paris, France. Her films have screened at cinema festivals including the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Paris, and in museums such as the Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume Paris, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Locarno Film festival Pardi di domani Best Direction Prize, and prizes from FIDMarseille and Doclisboa, MIDBO and Videobrasil, among others. Several retrospectives of her work have been held internationally, in cinematheques (TIFF Lightbox, Harvard Film Archive, Cinemateca de Bogotá), museums (Les Abattoirs - FRAC Occitanie, CA2M, Tabakalera), film festivals (Mar del Plata, RIDM, FICUNAM) and non-fiction seminars (The Flaherty Film Seminar, Doc’s Kingdom). Her films have been featured in solo exhibitions at the MASP São Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff and Medellín’s Modern Art Museum; as well as in group exhibitions such as the Liverpool Biennial, FRONT Triennial, Times Art Berlin, and Videonale. Her works are in private and public collections (KADIST, CNAP, Banco de la República de Colombia, CIFO Miami, and FRAC Lorraine). Since 2019, she is part of the curatorial and research initiative Counter Encounters, along with Rachael Rakes and Onyeka Igwe.