Victoria Guillem is an Ecuadorian-American filmmaker and educator, born and raised in New York City and currently based in Durham, North Carolina. Victoria holds a BFA in Film and Television from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University, and is a 2023 Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow. Victoria also currently hosts Open Screening Durham, a monthly screening series at Shadowbox Studio.

Victoria’s directorial work has been included in the Anthology Film Archives New Filmmakers series, the Universe Multicultural Film Festival, the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival, among others. Their short film Todo won Best Experimental Film at the 2023 Oregon Documentary Film Festival.

Working through an intuitive, editing-led process, their work explores family as a window into identity and history, weaving together memory and archival material to let coincidence and magic reveal the truth.