SAMANTHA AVILA is a Peruvian director, screenwriter, and photographer whose work explores raw subjectivity through poetic visual language. She holds a BA in Communications from the University of Lima and studied photography at the Centro de la Imagen. Her artistic background is shaped by an interdisciplinary approach that combines experimental cinema, screenwriting, and visual arts, including programs at Corriente Alterna, UNAM, and Berlinale Talents Buenos Aires (2021, Directing). In 2025, she was selected for the Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today fellowship in Los Angeles.

She founded Res in 2019, an independent production company based in Lima and operating from Mexico City, where she develops both fiction and commercial projects. Her short films include “Camino” (2018), “POV” (2019), and “Puquio” (2024), a profound portrait of motherhood and postwar trauma in the Peruvian Andes. “Puquio” premiered at the Lima Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Mention.

Samantha is currently developing her debut feature film, “Mother Tongue”, a psychological drama anchored in personal and collective memory in the aftermath of Peru’s Internal Armed Conflict.