Overview
Victoria Guillem (she/they) is a filmmaker, educator, and musician born and raised in New York City with deep roots in Portoviejo, Ecuador. Victoria has been making experimental, narrative, and documentary films for over a decade. Victoria has a BFA in Film and Television from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is a 2023 Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow. They have worked as a media arts educator, programmer, editor, and assistant editor. Victoria currently works as a youth media educator at the Educational Video Center and is also developing a documentary about the revolutionary salsa band, Las Mariquitas. Their directorial work has been included in the Anthology Film Archives New Filmmakers series, the Universe Multicultural Film Festival, and the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, among others. Her latest film “Todo” won the Best Experimental Film award at the 2023 Oregon Documentary Film Festival. Victoria uses her work to question Latinx identity, memory, and linear time. Using experimental filmmaking techniques, Victoria explores her family’s history to have larger conversations about acculturation gaps in the immigrant experience.