Biography

Andrés Farías is a filmmaker from the Dominican Republic. In 2014 he won the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection Award for his video installation Honey Pot. In 2015, he was selected for the Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program (ELAP) for his research project on the representation of the Caribbean Women in Film. In 2018 he shot his first feature film "Candela" (Currently in Post) supported by the Sundance Institute and La Fabrique des cinémas du Monde of the French Institute.