Laura Chará

Laura Chará is a filmmaker and researcher based in Paris. She is pursuing two master’s degrees at Université Paris 8: one in Film Direction and Creation, and another in Film Theory, Aesthetics, and History.
She is part of the programming team for the Panorama of Colombian Cinema in Paris and participated as a screenwriter in the Talents Buenos Aires film professionals’ forum. She has worked in casting, production, and the direction team on diverse audiovisual projects and festivals in Colombia.
Her cinematic practice focuses on representations of childhood, memory, and ecology in cinema, with an emphasis on contemporary Latin American film and the exploration of cinematic languages, their narrative devices, and aesthetic implications. Todas las manos que solté is her first short film.