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Laura Huertas Millán, Film/Video Co-ChairLaura Huertas Millán is an artist, filmmaker, and writer from Colombia, based in France. She holds a PhD from PSL University (SACRe program) developed at the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). More than twenty film retrospectives of her work have been held internationally. Her films have been shown in leading world cinema festivals (Berlinale, Rotterdam, Cinéma du Réel, Mar del Plata...) and won prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Doclisboa and Videobrasil. She had solo exhibitions at the MASP São Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff and Medellin’s Modern Art Museum. Her films have also been exhibited and screened at the Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, Guggenheim Museum in NYC, Times Art Berlin and presented in biennials such as the Liverpool, FRONT Triennial, Videobrasil, Videonale, and Sharjah Biennial. Her work is part of public and private collections (CNAP France, Banco de la República Colombia, Kadist Foundation, Sharjah Foundation, and Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, among others). In 2024, she was the laureate of the Aware Prize (Nouveau Regard) benefitting mid-career women artists linked to the French scene. She was also the recipient of the Ulrike Crespo After Nature Prize, awarded by C/O Berlin and the Crespo Foundation.