Claudia Medina began her career as a filmmaker fifteen years ago assisting acclaimed Canadian director Nettie Wild on her feature documentary "A Place Called Chiapas". Since then she has worked alongside a number of respected Canadian filmmakers as a writer, editor, production coordinator, field producer and shooter.

 

Claudia has been the recipient of numerous awards from the Canada Council of the Arts for her short dramatic films she has written, produced and directed. For the past two years she has also been collaborating with artists of different disciplines to create visual projections for performances,and live visuals for electronic musicians throughout Canada and in Barcelona. She also develops and implements curriculum for workshops that combine community development, conflict resolution and ecological awareness through filmmaking to diverse groups nationally and internationally.

 

Claudia has recently completed a master’s degree in Visual Culture from the University of Barcelona with a focus on visual culture and ecology.