Genesis Scarlet Valenzuela Valdez

Elias Querejera Zine Eskola

BIOGRAPHIE

Genesis Valenzuela Valdez was born in the Dominican Republic in 1988. She studied Dramatic Art at the National School of Arts. At the same school she took the preparatory course of Plastic Arts. In 2014 she graduated in Advertising, and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. Then, in 2017 she enrolled in the Altos de Chavon Film School in the course of Direction. There she made the animated short film "Industrializado", which screened at the 2018 Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in the Animation section. With the same short, she was part of the Animazine section of the Malaga Festival in 2019. Her thesis short film called "Desideria" is a documentary-essay premiered at the Doc Buenos Aires International Film Festival, and was also part of the Ibero-American Short Film showcase at the Quito International Film Festival. At the end of 2020, she concluded a master's degree in Experimental Film at the Elias Querejeta School in San Sebastian, Spain. There she finished writing her first feature film: "Monte y Culebra" in consultation with the screenwriter Michel Gaztambide. With that script she won the first place in the National Film Contest of the Dominican Republic's General Direction of Cinema (FONPROCINE).

FILMOGRAPHIE