Design Partner
Claudia Medina began her career as a filmmaker fifteen years ago assisting acclaimed Canadian director Nettie Wild on her feature documentary “A Place Called Chiapas”. Since then she has worked alongside a number of respected Canadian filmmakers as a writer, editor, production coordinator, field producer and shooter. Claudia has been the recipient of numerous awards from the Canada Council of the Arts for her short dramatic films she has written, produced and directed.
For the past two years she has also been collaborating with artists of different disciplines to create visual projections for performances, and live visuals for electronic musicians throughout Canada and in Barcelona. She also develops and implements curriculum for workshops that combine community development, conflict resolution and ecological awareness through filmmaking to diverse groups nationally and internationally. Claudia has recently completed a master’s degree in Visual Culture from the University of Barcelona with a focus on visual culture and ecology. Recently she has co directed a short documentary about alternative economics called “Life After Growth”, which will be developed into a longer film. Her latest fiction film, “Animal Blessings” set in the Friuli region of Italy, is currently in post production. Most recently, Claudia created a multi media installation that explored our relationship to the natural world which she will continue exploring and implementing with various communities throughout British Columbia.
Claudia brings to Emergent diverse and extensive experience in designing and implementing experiential media making programs for adults and youth in both formal educational contexts as well as for NGO and community groups. These programs encourage participants to creatively explore and realize their deep connection between internal self, our species as a whole and the biosphere.
