Talent Guide
Sisa Bueno
- Discipline:Cinematographer, Director
- Program Year:Documentary Lab 2023
Bio
Originally from New York City, Sisa Bueno is a Director-Cinematographer dedicated to exploring powerful ripple effects within humanity. Her most recent feature film FOR VENIDA, FOR KALIEF had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition, and has been covered by Democracy Now!, The Guardian, NPR, and NBC. Her work has received support from the Ford Foundation, ITVS-PBS Open Call, Sundance Documentary Fund, International Documentary Association (IDA), Firelight Media Lab Fellowship, and the Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellowship among others. She studied both film production and interactive technologies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU). She is an alum of the NEW INC tech incubator program within the New Museum during which she founded the VUEVELO platform to fulfill an existing need for art lovers seeking more vetted information about the works that they love (prototype stage). She is also currently an adjunct instructor at her alma mater, Tisch-NYU, and a traveling instructor for the Film Independent Global Media Makers program.