Florencia Silva García
documentary & ethnographic filmmaker
Brooklyn, US
filmmaker,audiovisual,film,educator.About
Florencia is a documentary and ethnographic filmmaker.
She graduated as a Multimedia communicator in Buenos Aires and specialized in audiovisual education and research in Spain. She is the director and creator of the short documentary film "Tú solo tú" filmed in the Yucatán Peninsula (Sisbichén), Mexico, within the Maya community. Using the pretext of a wedding, she captures the customs that surround this community.
In 2018, Florencia embarked on a journey of imparting video workshops, leveraging her expertise to train students hailing from Mexico, the United States, Spain, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Argentina. Her highly acclaimed workshop, "Diégesis," is centered around harnessing the power of technological tools to weave captivating narrative. In 2021, she conducted an extensive research project titled "Digital Divide," which focused on rural communities in northern Argentina. These communities face limited or no access to technology, and connectivity remains out of reach for many, particularly in the Gran Chaco region. The area is home to Criollo families and approximately 200,000 indigenous people from nine different tribes, including Wichí, Guaraní, Chané, Qom, Chorote, Pilagá, and others.
Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, where she continues her work in researching Aboriginal communities and producing documentaries that shed light on the vanishing aspects of their culture over time.