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Laura Huertas Millán
**Laura Huertas Millán** is a prominent filmmaker and visual artist of French-Colombian descent, whose work uniquely merges cinema, contemporary art, and scholarly research. Recognized for her innovative storytelling, Huertas Millán's films have been featured at prestigious film festivals worldwide, including the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Cinéma du Réel. Her remarkable contributions to cinema have garnered awards at the Locarno Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Doclisboa, and Videobrasil, among others.
Her artistic vision has been celebrated through over twenty retrospectives and exhibitions globally, hosted in esteemed venues such as TIFF Lightbox in Toronto, Harvard Film Archive, and Bogotá's cinematheque. Additionally, her works have been showcased in leading film festivals, including Mar del Plata and Rencontres du Documentaire de Montreal.
In the realm of contemporary art, Huertas Millán's latest solo exhibitions took place at notable institutions, including MASP São Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, and the Modern Art Museum of Medellín. Her films are not only displayed in art venues like the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Guggenheim Museum in New York but are also part of significant public and private collections, such as Kadist and CNAP.
Huertas Millán earned a practice-based PhD in “Ethnographic Fictions” through the SACRe program at PSL University and the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She is also an educator in both academic and alternative formats and has collaborated with curator and writer Rachael Rakes since 2019 on research addressing critical anthropology, aesthetics, and political encounters.
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