DIRECTORS

Marialuisa Ernst is a New York–based queer transcultural artist originally from Bolivia and Chile. Over the past decade, she has created intimate, political cinema shaped by her background in performance art. Her work explores personal loss, memory, and the invisible threads that connect humanity beyond nationality and borders.

A Place of Absence is her feature debut, premiered at DOCNYC. and True/False wining Best documentary at San Diego Latino film festival, it was supported by the Tribeca Gucci Fund, Firelight Media, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYC Women’s Fund. The film has been selected for the DOC NYC Forum, the Gotham (formerly IFP) Lab, the Tribeca Film Network, Visions du Réel Industry Network, DCTV’s WIP Lab, the BGDM Feedback Loop and the NALIP Media Summit Fellowship. She is a member of the International Documentary Association (IDA), the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), and Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM).