Camila Guarda is an award-winning Chilean documentary filmmaker, journalist and educator who focuses on nuanced stories about extraordinary people from communities seldom featured in the mainstream media.

She worked as a broadcast journalist for 7 years in Chile’s most prestigious TV stations, where she travelled through Latin America covering Breaking News and developing Special Reports about the communities those current events affected. This experience led her to nonfiction filmmaking.

Her work has screened at Academy Award-qualifying film festivals like St. Louis International Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and Reel Sisters of the Diaspora. Her latest short documentary “The Women and the Sea” won Best International Latino Short Film at NYC’s Latin Film Market and the Latino Short Documentary Award at Texas’ Festival de Cine Latinoamericano.
She holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University and is currently teaching Documentary Filmmaking, Video Storytelling and TV News Reporting at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her students have won dozens of prestigious awards for projects created in her classes.