Viviana Mamani (El Alto, Bolivia, 1991) is an Aymara, migrant, brown-skinned filmmaker, photographer and artist. They studied filmmaking at the Andean School of Cinematography led by master Jorge Sanjinés, focusing on transdisciplinarity in the arts and merging video art, experimental film, performance, live arts and photography. They have made short films, installations, photographic projects and performances exhibited, selected and awarded at Ibero-American spaces and festivals of photography and of university, experimental, Indigenous, feminist, human rights and LGBTTQ+ cinema. They were selected to represent Bolivia at Talents Buenos Aires 2022 in Argentina.
Their first photographic project, “Cristobál Condori: Una nariz de ficción”, won the Latin American Festival of Experimental Photography in Cali, Colombia.
They are currently developing their first non-fiction feature, "Estoy
buscando a mi familia", a project selected for the Bolivia Lab
2020, the Ibero-American Meeting of Emerging Filmmakers in Guatemala 2020,
ACAMPADOC 2021 in Panama, CONECTA 2021 in Chile, Mapulab 2022 at the Wallmapu Indigenous Film Festival in Chile, and the Indigenous Peoples Filmmakers Lab at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico.