Gabriela Dominguez Ruvalcaba
Is a Mexican filmmaker based in Chiapas, Mexico. Her artistic practice explores documentary and experimental forms of storytelling that arise from her interest in themes where memory and time become present, as well as a sense of territory and ecology. Her practice is also nourished by interdisciplinary experiences between dance and film. Her work has been shown at film festivals such as LOCARNO, IDFA, Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine-Latinoamericano de la Habana, Cartagena Film Festival, Morelia Film Festival, FICUNAM. She has been recognised by the National System of Art Creators in México (2020-2023). She directed "La danza del hipocampo" and "Ways to traverse a territory". Gabriela is a graduate of the Berlinale Talents as well as the DocStation, Flaherty Seminar Fellow and Talents Guadalajara.
Her documentaries have participated in documentary labs and pitching such as Conecta Chile, Rough Cut Lab Montevideo, Plataforma IB DOCSMX, SANFIC Industry, FIDBA WIP.
Her educational background began with a degree in Communication Sciences from UDLAP, followed by a Masters in Creative Documentary from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Diploma in Film Essays from EICTV Cuba. She has also participated in various forums and workshops, such as Doc Station and Berlinale Talent Campus, the Flaherty Seminar in New York in 2015 and the Walden Writing Workshop with Marta Andreu in 2020.
She is a co-founder and member of the interdisciplinary Chicken Bank Collective, a group of six women artists from the United States and Mexico, with whom she has developed much of her creative work in video dance, performance and narrative practices. Her audiovisual work has been influenced by transdisciplinary collaboration.
