Luisa De La Ville, Filmmaker with over 45 years of experience. During the past 25 years, she’s mostly worked as Producer of fiction and documentary feature films. Before that, she’s worked as Assistant Director, Editor, Script Supervisor and TV Director. She teaches film workshops and is one of the founders of ABICINE, the Social Welfare Network for Venezuelan Filmmakers. Luisa is a Venezuelan filmmaker based in NYC.
She’s worked in international films such as Arachnophobia, Dragonfly, Lost Worlds; and in many awarded Venezuelan films, such as: My Straight son (Goya Award, 2012);
El Enemigo; Una vida y dos mandados and Oriana (Cannes Award, 1984)
She has produced four fiction films as well as her most recent documentary Children of Las Brisas, which had its World Premiere at Sheffield Doc Fest in the UK in June 2022, and its North American Premiere, at DOC NYC in November 2022. Children of Las Brisas was aired on Independent Lens/PBS and on France Televisions in 2023. The documentary will be available for streaming in the US through the PBS/Independent Lens/YouTube channel this summer of 2023
Besides working on the distribution and festival circuit, Luisa is developing her upcoming documentaries. One is about the excellent musicians of the Venezuelan Diaspora in the US, another about an indigenous young woman trying to absorb information from her elders, while clashing with people outside the community with foreign interests; the other focuses on a small, indigenous community in the Venezuelan Amazon region who play in an indigenous tribe soccer competition.