Rita Ferrando

Directing

Biography

Rita Ferrando is a Canadian-Argentinian writer and filmmaker. Her films have been presented internationally at film festivals and institutions, including the Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives (New York), The Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, True/False (Columbia), the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), 25 FPS (Zagreb), Centre A (Vancouver), the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco), and the Clemente Center (New York). Ferrando’s films explore desire, grief, embodiment, and the relationship between human and non-human worlds. She holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and is an alum of the TIFF Filmmaker Lab.