Edda Procel Manriquez is an award winning performance and experimental horror film and video artist. Her work has been featured at  prestigious film festivals all around the world.

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Mentored by French New Wave figures like Jean-Pierre Gorin and Babette Mangolte, as well as renowned experimental filmmakers including Thom Andersen, James Benning, Betzy Bromberg, Charlotte Pryce, and Nina Menkes- and taught by Latinx storytellers and scholars such as Lourdes Portillo, Teddy Cruz, and Ricardo Dominguez- Edda went on to create provocative, cathartic work that explores the complexities of the human spirit, the immigrant experience, and radical cinema.

 

Edda is the founder and director of 501(c)3 travelling film festival, Femtasia Fest which features first time women, femme, and non-binary filmmakers  from over 30 different countries ranging in genres from Documentary, Experimental, Narrative, Horror, Female Sexuality, and Psychotropic Cinema. 

 

She has programmed and collaborated with various film festivals including Blumhouse, Fantasia International Film Festival, San Diego Italian Film Festival, San Diego Latino Film Festival, and Femme Scandal, Etheria Film Night, Boston Underground International Film Festival, Non-Plussed Ultra, Women Make Movies, Vidiots, Seed & Spark, American Cinematheque, and the Echo Park Film Center.

 

Edda obtained her M.F.A. in Film and Video at the California Institute of the Arts and her Bachelors in Visual Arts, Communications, and Stage Management from the University of California, San Diego. Edda currently works at the the third largest film archive in North America, the Academy Film Archive.

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