Laura Garcia-Cordon

(she/her)

Director, producer, photographer

Guatemala City, Guatemala GT

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Anthropologist turned audiovisual storyteller, convinced that documenting and filmmaking preserves memory and reorganices the discourse. Navigating between journalism, social communication, and art to produce impact-driven stories.

About

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).

Featured Work

El basurero de Tapachula que sirve de «casa y trabajo» para migrantes

The "Linda Vista" garbage dump in Tapachula is a stop where the massive migratory flow that passes through Mexico's southern border is trapped. Women, men, children and elderly among the most humble and desperate, originating from the so-called "Northern Triangle of Central America" -Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador- populate this hellish place to get their daily bread through the collection and sale of plastic and metals.

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