Lorena Cervera Ferrer’s research interests are on documentary cinema, particularly Latin American documentary, women’s cinema, political cinemas, collective filmmaking, and film history and theory.
She has co-edited a section for the latest issue of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, published in September 2022. This section looks at Latin American feminist film and visual art collectives and stems from the international online conference Cozinhando imagens, tejiendo feminismos, which took place in April 2021.
She has published on Latin American women’s documentary and feminist film collectives from the 1970s and 1980s in peer-reviewed journals. These articles are: “Towards a Latin American Feminist Cinema: The Case of Cine Mujer in Colombia” (2020) at Alphaville. Journal of Film and Screen Media; “Militancy, feminism and cinema: The case of Grupo Feminista Miércoles” (2022) at Journal of Italian Cinema; “Reproductive rights, othered women, and the making of feminist documentary in Latin America” (2022) at Feminist Media Studies.
Her forthcoming publications are the article “Tres aproximaciones al cine documental hecho por mujeres de América Latina entre 1975 y 1994” (2023) at Orbis Tertius and the book chapter “#PrecarityStory: Academic Casualisation and Feminist Filmmaking” (2023) in Constructions of the Real, edited by Catherine Gough-Brady et al. She is currently developing the article “Tracing the Archives of Venezuelan Film Collectives.”
Lorena is also a documentary filmmaker and has directed Pilas (2019) and co-directed #PrecarityStory (2020). Currently, she is developing her first feature-length film, titled Processing Images from Caracas.