Claudia Cifuentes is an American screenwriter, film director and producer of Guatemalan descent. She is the writer, director and producer of After the Wedding. After the Wedding screened at various high-profile film festivals including the Bahamas International Film Festival, the Big Apple Film Festival and the Bushwick Film Festival. The film is now available on Amazon and iTunes. Her next feature film, Bariloche, was a recent finalist for the 2020 Sundance Writer’s Lab and 2020 Universal Writers Program. The film will begin filming in 2021, and is being produced by Pink Forest Films. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a member of the Film Fatales. She resides in leafy Boerum Hill, Brooklyn with her husband and two young sons.