Draft:Clara Cullen

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| birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Clara Cullen (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine writer and filmmaker.

Biography

Clara Cullen was born in Argentina in 1986, studied film at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and Documentary Film-making at Parsons School of Design University in NYC. She trained with Spike Lee in New York and Werner Herzog in Los Angeles.{{Cite web |last=Damestoy |first=Cindy |date=2023-03-06 |title=La cineasta argentina que ganó un premio internacional: de estudiar en Buenos Aires a filmar con Spike Lee y Werner Herzog |url=https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2023/03/06/la-cineasta-argentina-que-gano-un-premio-internacional-de-estudiar-en-buenos-aires-a-filmar-con-spike-lee-y-werner-herzog/ |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Infobae |language=es}}. While living in New York, she shot a series of interviews with porn stars that were shown at Maccarone Gallery (NYC) and FacSimile Gallery (Milan) in 2010.

Clara is a regular contributor to Nowness{{Cite web |title=Clara Cullen. Filmmaker |url=https://www.nowness.com/contributor/317/clara-cullen |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.nowness.com}} and The New York Times. With the support of Nowness, she directed a series of short films: "Beauty is a form of Genius", "Airtight", "Above and Below" and "Max"{{Cite web |last=Mau |first=Dhani |date=2017-09-05 |title=How Clara Cullen Became a Go-To Director for Cool, Authentic Fashion Films |url=https://fashionista.com/2017/09/clara-cullen-director-interview |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Fashionista |language=en}}. Her interactive film Ballroom Battle won a Lovies award in 2013{{Cite web |title=Nowness Awards |url=https://www.nowness.asia/about/awards |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=www.nowness.asia}}. In collaboration with dancer and choreographer, Cecilia Bengolea she directed a series of films shot in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and shown in Festival Zurich Moves in 2014.

Inspired by the dark web, she directed her debut opera “Hercules in Mato Grosso” in 2015, staged at the Dixon Place Theater in the Lower East Side of New York in collaboration with prestigious Argentine Opera House Teatro Colon{{Cite web |last=Lentjes |first=Rebecca |date=2015-06-12 |title=Hercules in Mato Grosso brings South American opera to New York |url=https://icareifyoulisten.com/2015/06/hercules-mato-grosso-brings-south-american-opera-new-york/ |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=I CARE IF YOU LISTEN |language=en-US}}. In 2016 Clara was selected to participate in a film residence at The Prada Foundation in Venice. The same year she started shooting a documentary about her great grandmother: the first Argentinean female director.

Clara’s work was shown in the Biennial of Moving Image in Buenos Aires at the Faena Art Center in 2017. In 2018 Cullen directed her first music video for Swedish singer Lykke Li “Utopia” with more than half a million views on Youtube{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4S_9LKUj8A&ab_channel=LykkeLi |title=Lykke Li - utopia |date=2018-05-12 |last=Lykke Li |access-date=2025-04-23 |via=YouTube}}. In 2019 Clara, along with jazz composer Richard Sear, won the Shed Open Call Commission in NYC, a grant to make a performance using projection as an instrument, triggering visual phrases in reaction to the sonic improvisations. They performed at The Shed in NYC in the spring of 2019{{Cite web |title=Open Call: Richard Sears, Clara Cullen, Ethan Braun, and Yael Ginosar |url=https://www.theshed.org/program/98-open-call-richard-sears-clara-cullen-ethan-braun-and-yael-ginosar?feed_item=78 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=The Shed |language=en}}.

Clara presented her short documentary "Lost and Found" in Visions de Réel, Indie Lisboa{{Cite web |date=2023-01-25 |title=Lost and Found — IndieLisboa |url=https://indielisboa.com/en/film/lost-and-found/ |access-date=2025-04-23 |language=en-US}} and SEMINCI and BADOC Festival. Her feature-length fiction film Manuela had its world premiere at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in 2022{{Cite web |last=1=Robles 2=Morello |first=1=Micaela 2=Antonella |date=2022-12-12 |title="Manuela": un retrato íntimo de maternidades y cuidado, con mucha sensibilidad |url=https://www.filo.news/noticia/2022/12/12/manuela-un-retrato-intimo-de-maternidades-y-cuidado-con-mucha-sensibilidad |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=Filo News |language=es-ES}} and won the award for Best Latin American and Spanish Film at the Santa Barbara Film Festival{{Cite web |last=Woodard |first=Josef |date=2023-02-14 |title=Of Nannies and Grieving |url=https://www.independent.com/2023/02/14/of-nannies-and-grieving/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=The Santa Barbara Independent |language=en-US}}, as well as Best Direction at the Next Generation Indie Film Awards, in addition to being screened at multiple international festivals{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Luke Y. |date=2023-08-07 |title=Cine Las Americas Review: Clara Cullen's MANUELA captures Sean Baker-style indie magic |url=https://filmsgonewild.com/cine-las-americas-review-clara-cullens-manuela-captures-sean-baker-style-indie-magic/ |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=Films Gone Wild |language=en-US}}

Draft:Clara Cullen

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