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.

Current Project

For Venida, For Kalief

Logline

FOR VENIDA, FOR KALIEF follows the legacy of Kalief Browder via the poetry of his mother, Venida in an unfolding poetic journey between past, present, and future. The film weaves a cinematic mosaic collage of verité, poetic visuals, and rare archival imagery from 1970s New York - a bold reimagining of criminal justice storytelling. The film explores how an individual’s life—and afterlife—can transcend boundaries to ignite social and cultural change once thought unattainable.