Florencia Portieri

is an Argentinian film director, cinematographer, and editor, currently residing in Miami, Florida. After receiving her BFA from the New York Film Academy, Portieri has gone on to helm several high-profile projects in her capacity as a Director of Photography and 1st Assistant Camera. Films composed by her eye have screened in world-class film festivals, museums exhibition spaces around the world, including HBO's New York Latino Film Festival, the New Orleans, Miami, Florida, Trinidad & Tobago, and Short Shorts (Tokyo) Film Festivals, to name some. Her work has also been exhibited at the Adrienne Arsht Center, the Norton Museum of Art, and the Doral Contemporary Art Museum. Her most recent work, a short hybrid documentary titled "You Were Never Really Here" has been selected to have its world premiere at the Academy Award-qualifying Slamdance Film Festival in January 2024.

Aside from her work as a filmmaker, Portieri serves as a Senior Mentoring Artist with the After School Film Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization dedicated to mentoring at-risk youth and engaging the arts to service historically underserved communities throughout South Florida, where she is being named the first female Artistic Director in Spring 2024. She is also a Senior Contributing Artist at the White Elephant Group (WEG), a Miami-based film and digital media collective elevating and platforming the voices of minority stories and storytellers.