Laura Garcia-Cordon

Guatemalan documentary filmmaker, photographer and researcher focused on migration, ecology and historical memory, with multidisciplinary training in anthropology, film and visual arts. She is currently photo editor and audiovisual journalist for the digital newsroom Plaza Pública, with whom she was nominated for the Gabo Award for her coverage of the 2023 indigenous resistance. In 2024 she was a fellow in Video Consortium's Solutions Storytelling Project: Latin America, with the documentary Road to the Water. She co-directed the 2023 edition of The Trenton Project. She participated in the Central American Audiovisual Laboratory PRISMA II with the documentary K'äs Ija'tz (2022) and in the ACAMPADOC Creation Camp (2021). Her work has been exhibited at the Costa Rica International Film Festival, Inheritance Environmental Festival, Festival Ícaro, Museo Contemporáneo de Arte y Diseño de Costa Rica, and the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica (CIRMA).