Ana María Jessie Serna
Filmmaker, Visual Anthropologist, and Historian.
In addition to this, I specialize in Governance, Human Rights, and Culture of Peace. She has six years of experience in the development of documentaries, and social and community research, with black and indigenous women, LGTBIQ+, among other communities.
She makes audiovisual pieces that narrate the lives of black and indigenous people, queer, trans and community theories, through processes of collective healing, human rights and historical memory.
Winner of important national and international awards for her investigative and community work, such as Best Caribbean Documentary at FAMMA 2019 and the Contar lo Nuestro 2020 award for Best Documentary, with her film Fishing Her: Mujeres de Sal (Fishing Her: Women of Salt). Chevening scholar with which she did her MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester UK obtaining a merit award degree.