Laura Cristina Aguilera Villavicencio

Known for

Directing

She spent two years pursuing a degree in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design (UNAM), focusing on performance, photography, and sculpture. In 2021, she enrolled at ENAC, where she has collaborated on various student short films, serving as a cinematographer, producer, sound designer, and director. She is currently specialising in documentary directing. Mapas desde adentro (Maps from Within), her first documentary short film, was featured at DOC Coimbra and at the DOQUMENTA festival, where it received the Jury Prize in the university selection. It was also screened at the Positively Different Short Film Festival in Athens, Greece, where it won the “Curatorial Award” during the festival’s most recent edition in 2026. Her work centres on the feminised body and its history of vulnerability, proposing potential solutions through the act of “embodying”, community, collective creation, and—above all—the courageous act of refusing to remain silent.