Cecilia is a New York-based writer/producer/director born in Cuba and raised in Chile. The first movie she produced, Piola, won the Best First Feature Prize at FICG 35, in México, and was part of the Official Selection at Málaga Film Festival. Cecilia is part of the highly competitive BAFTA’s Newcomers Program. She is currently developing two features Upstreamers and A Decorous Woman. She produced “On My Own” (2019) winner of the DGA Jury Prize in the student competition and selected at Brussels Short Film Festival, among others. “Aburo” is her directorial debut in fiction.