Sofía Velázquez is a Peruvian independent filmmaker, editor and writer. Her work has been screened at exhibitions and festivals such as Mar del Plata, Málaga or Neighboring Scenes and platforms such as Aashara – Contemporary Artistic Practices. Her latest film, About Everything there is to know (2021), won a Special Jury Mention at Mar del Plata, Best International Film at DocBahía and was part of the 20 best Latin American films for Cinema Tropical in 2022.
As a member of the Mercado Central Collective she has organized and worked in collective projects such as From the inside: Audiovisual stories of female subjectivities in confinement spaces, Hilando Miradas: first audiovisual residency for women in Puno or QAWASPA KUTIPAY organized by the Peruvian Collective Chola Contravisual. She is a former fellow of MacDowell, Union Docs and the Yaddo and now is working in her new film The Colloquium of the birds. Has a master’s degree in Visual Anthropology and teaches in the Postgraduate Program in the PUCP university.
She is editor of films such as El Archivo Bastardo (2024) by Marianela Vega, Qué es lo que puede un cuerpo (2025) by Violeta Rodríguez and No hay ido sin retorno (2025) by Carlos Sánchez Giraldo. She is also working collaboratively with artist Carine Doumit on a project tentatively titled “C’est ici que je vis”.
2024 – Editing Seminar with Mario Bocchicchio: The matter of ideas in documentary editing
2024 – Fellow in Yaddo Art Residency
2023 – Film Seminar: Fragmentos de lo Real
2023 – Fellow in Summer Documentary Lab Union Docs
2023 – Course New Latin American Cinema with Victor Guimaraes.
2023 – Poetry workshop “Voices and Echos” with Rosella DiPaolo.
2022 – Fellow in MacDowell Art Residency
2021 – Film workshop with José Luis Torres Leiva. La Incubadora Fílmica.
2020 – Poetry workshop “La disciplina del goce” con Andrea Cabel.
2018 – 2020 – Workshop “Travesías” with Mary Jiménez.
2016 – Diploma in Film Project Development. Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión / EICTV / CUBA
2016 – II Andean Workshop on Idea Development / Ibermedia Program.
2009 – 2012 – Master in Visual Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
2001 – 2004 – Bachelor’s Degree in Social Communication with a major in Journalism Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
As a film director
The Colloquium of the Birds (In progress)
About Everything there is to know (2021, 90 min.)
Beans (2021, 6 min.)
Three mourning tigers (2020, 5 min.)
Letter to a Professor in Delaware (2018, 20 min. co-dirección con Carlos Sánchez Giraldo)
I am eternal (2014, 6 min.)
Portrait, 2013, 70 min. co-dirección con Carlos Sánchez Giraldo)
Shrines (2010, 20 min.)
Other Cinema (2010, 20 min. co-dirección con Javier Becerra)
As an film editor
No hay ida sin retorno.(In progress)
Directed by Carlos Sánchez Giraldo. Fiction Feature.
Qué es lo que puede un cuerpo (In progress)
Directed by Violeta Rodríguez. Documentary Feature.
Survival Handbook.(In progress)
Directed by Luisa García Alva. Documentary Feature.
The Bastard Archive(2024)
Directed by Marianela Vega. Documentary Feature.
Mientras todo iba pasando(2024)
Directed by Sandra Rodríguez & Aaron Rojas. Documentary short.
Trascámara(2021)
Directed by Karoline Pelikan.Documentary short.
Hasta que regrese(2014)
Directed by Luisa García Alba. Documentary short.
Bufeo(2014)
Directed by Christian Bendayán. Fiction short.
Screenings and exhibitions
Award for Best International Film at the DocBahíaBlanca Festival for About Everything There is to Know, 2022.
Screening of About Everything There is to Know in Panoramica 2022 Stockholms Latinamerican Film Festival.
Screening of About Everything There is to Know in Neighboring Scenes – Film at Lincoln Center, NY. 2022.
Screening of About Everything There is to Know in Festival de Cine de Málaga – Documentary Competition.
Special Mention of the Jury in the Latin American Competition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival for About Everything There is to Know, 2021.
Award for the best documentary of 2021 awarded by APRESCI, Peruvian Film Press Association for About Everything There is to Know.
Main Prize in the 7th. Lima Film Week – 7ma semana del Cine de Lima for About Everything There is to Know, 2021.
In teaching
2024 – currently. Film Seminar. National School of Fine Arts, Lima
2024 -currently. Editing Laboratory: critique, construction and deconstruction of meanings. Graduate School. PUCP, Lima.
2026 – currently. Visual theory and Documentary Filmmaking at Communication Faculty at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP, Lima.
Ethnographic Exploration and documentary Filmmaking at the Visual Anthropology Master Program at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – PUCP University, Lima.
2012 – 2015 – Visual theory at the Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas- UPC, Lima.
Alternative and community projects
2024 – QAWASPA KUTIPAY. Creation and non-fiction cinema in Pampas Tayacaja, Huancavelica.
2023 – Hilando Miradas. Women’s Film Residency in Amantaní, Puno.
2022 – Your Body / Mine. Art and creation workshops for immigrant women in Lima in collaboration with other artists.
2019 – 2021 – Santa Margarita Detention Center for underage women. Art and film workshops
2019 – Women’s Penitentiary Institution “Medalla Milagrosa”. Art and film workshops.
Publications
“Metal y melancolía de Heddy Honigman” en Filmografías Comentadas en América Latina Tomo II. Coordinador: Javier Coastler 2023
“Desde Adentro: relatos desde subjetividades femeninas en espacios de reclusión” 2022.
Subjectivities, Resistances and Transits in Communication. Revista Conexión, PUCP. No. 12, 2019.
“A Common Gaze: Reflections on New Documentary Practices in Peru” (co- author: Talía Dajes).Latin American Documentary in the New Millennium, ed. María Guadalupe Arenillas / Michael J. Lazzara. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
