Gilliam de la Torre Pro

Gilliam de la Torre (Gigi) is a visual artist primarily focused on Cinematography and Photography. Having studied cinematography at University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana, Cuba and completed DP workshops at EICTV San Antonio de los Baños and documentary studies at TISCH NYU. She was awarded a fellowship for the Flaherty Documentary Seminar in 2012. She also has a background of drama playwriting studies in college.

Her cinematographic career has been centered on her passion for documentaries, working as DP in features like “Cuban Food Stories” (premiered at Berlinale Film Festival, exhibited in a dozen of festivals including FICG, Guadalajara, Seattle, Newport… featured on Amazon Prime, iTunes, DVD and Delta Airlines), “Meeting Jim” (premiered at the Edinburg Film Festival and exhibited in several festivals around the globe including Odessa, HOF, SEMINCI Valladolid, Central Scotland Documentary Fest, Krakow, Parnu Film Fest… Winner of the Best Documentary Award at Boston Turkish Film Festival 2020. Broadcasted on prime time by BBC Scotland and the rest of UK and also on BLU TV on Turkey). “Me Japanese” (in post, winner of the Wave Maker Grant by Cannonball and Andy Warhol Foundation), “Garage Rendezvous” on the closure of the oldest flea market in Manhattan, NY and “Call me Lucky” (currently in post, sponsored by Women Make Movies). Furthermore, she has developed 2 other feature length documentaries with Mambo Panda Productions for CGTN America aired in 2022. Her first feature length film “Febrero” premiered at the 40th Miami Film Festival this March 2023 and won the main Award of the Festival. She is a usual cinematographer collaborator for Vice Media.

Additional film work includes mixed media collaborations videos with several artists like the videos for the piece “The Dance of Anger” from multidisciplinary artist Javier Castro, premiered at Dakar Biennale 2022. Frequent documentations like “The Poem” for Raul Cordero at Times Square and “Once Broken” for Kate Gorney; experimental pieces like “Trinity of Selves” for composer Nina Fukuoka, “Story of O” and “Derrotero” with dancer Gabriella Burdsall and director William Ruiz.

She resides in Brooklyn, New York.