Luciana Decker
Filmmaker –
Born in 1993 in La Paz, Bolivia
lucianadeckerorozco@gmail.com

STUDIES
2022-2024 Cinematic Arts MFA candidate University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee
2021 Diplomat in Sound Art Experimental and Sound Arts Base (BASE) (virtual) Concepción, Chile
2018-2020 Master in Bolivian and Latin-American literature University of San Andrés, La Paz Bolivia
2017 Diploma in management of teaching in higher education University of San Andrés, La Paz Bolivia
2012-2017 Bachelor in anthropology Bolivian Catholic University, Cochabamba Bolivia

FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
2023 Selected participant at LIFT Labs Gathering “Analog Resilience” Toronto, Canada
2022 Granted as Mentee in Forecast Platform, Berlin with WHAT HUMANS SEE AS BLOOD JAGUARS SEE AS CHICHA
2022 Granted as Nominee in Forecast Platform, Berlin with WHAT HUMANS SEE AS BLOOD JAGUARS SEE AS CHICHA
2022 Participation in BAL Baltic Analog Film Lab Latvia
2022 MFA summer grant from the University of Iowa for the project THE LANGUAGE OF THE ENTRAILS
2021 Iowa Arts Fellowship for University of Iowa MFA in Video and Film production
2020 Focuart research grant for the project “Early information about cinema in Bolivia 1911-1920”
2020 Prize for Best Film at Festival de Cine Radical, La Paz Bolivia for LARAMA
2017 Eduardo Avaroa prize for the best documentary for NANA
2017 Selected as Director in Talents Buenos Aires at BAFICI International Film Festival, Argentina
2016 Prize for the Transcinema Best Trans Andean Film for NANA
2016 DocLab selected in Festival Internacional de Guadalajara with NANA
2015 Translab Laboratory for documentaries in Transcinema International Film Festival Lima Perú with NANA
2015 Film lab residence at Transfrontera Arica Chile

FILMS
2023 WHAT HUMANS SEE AS BLOOD JAGUARS SEE AS CHICHA (Mid length, experimental documentary, 30 min.) World Premiere at Open City Documentary
Festival London, September 2023
2023 SPOILS (short length, experimental film, 7 min.) Screened at Diffusion Film Festival from the Reassemblage Collective, Toronto August 2023.
2021 OBJETOS PARLANTES (short length, experimental documentary, 8 min.) Screened at Transcinema Film Festival 2021, Cinemancia Film Festival 2022
2020 BELÉN (Short length, observational documentary and binaural sound, 25 min.) Screened at Incidencias sonoras In/Out Festival as part of the curation of
Spaciario, September 2020
2020 LARAMA (Short length, observational documentary, 8 min.) Filmed during quarantine in La Paz Bolivia. International Premiere at Frontera Sur Festival
Concepción Chile, 2021; Screened at Cinemancia Film Festival Colombia, 2021; Festival de Cine Radical, 2020; Screened at Wide Open Film Festival,
2021
2016 NANA (Feature length, experimental documentary, 65 min.) Filmed in La Paz Bolivia. International Premiere at Torino International Film Festival, 2016.
Screened at Frontera Sur, Festival de Cine de no ficción, 2016; A Cielo Abierto, 2017; Transcinema International Film Festival, 2016; Pachamama Film
Festival, 2016; Festival de Cine Radical, 2016

INSTALLATIONS / PROJECTIONS
2023 WHAT HUMANS SEE AS BLOOD JAGUARS SEE AS CHICHA 16mm film projection solo installation at the mentee’s presentation at Forecast Platform Berlin,
Radialsystem March 2023
2021 Film programmer of “Retrospective to Luis Mérida Coímbra Un pájaro con chompa larga y de mangas interminables” for Festival de Cine Radical in Bolivia
2020 Programmer and projectionist of First Home Movie Day Celebration in La Paz projected in super 8mm with María Domínguez

PUBLISHED TEXTS
2023 “Apparitions”, published in Short Ends Magazine #2 UWM
2020 “The language of the entrails in Puro Andar”. Symposium #13 Towards new approaches and horizons of understanding in Andean reflection and
analogous cultural spaces presented at the XIV Andean Jornadas of Latin-American literature Jalla México 2020: Animal worlds, plant worlds, bodies and
souls on Earth. https://youtu.be/3tiJUBkIUbE
2017 “El Bachfilm”, in film critic Magazine Nuevas Pornos. Retrieved from http://nuevas-pornos.blogspot.com/index.html
2016 “Field Niggas y la Balada del Oppenheimer, in film critic Magazine Nuevas Pornos. Retrieved from http://nuevas-pornos.blogspot.com/index.html

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022-present University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee Teacher Assistant of Cinematic Arts foundation courses.
2020-2021 Franz Tamayo University in La Paz Bolivia. Professor of Audiovisual Production Audiovisual Communication and English.

LANGUAGES
Spanish, English, French – fluent