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Maria Belen Poncio

Argentina

Biography

Writer and director from Córdoba, Argentina. She directed and co- wrote the short VR film 4 Feet: Blind Date, supported by the Biennale di Venezia College Cinema VR and the Sundance Institute. It premiered at Biennale di Venezia 2018, and screened at Sundance 2019 and SXSW 2019, winning the Best VR Narrative Award at the latter. It also won awards at DOK Leipzig, Trieste Go Short, and Guanajuato FF. She later directed and co-wrote the cross-platform miniseries 4 Feet High, co-produced by Arte France TV, which premiered at Biennale di Venezia 2020, Sundance 2021, BFI 2021, and TIFF Next Wave, and won the Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW 2021. Her latest short film When Everything Burns had its world premiere at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, winning the Award for Best Short Film in the national competition, followed by its international premiere at the Tribeca FF, where it won the Exceptional Craftsmanship Award in the Moving the Spotlight section. The short won Best Hispanic-American Short at the Spanish awards Premios Fugaz and received awards at FESAALP and five other Argentine festivals together with Peruvian festival Retama. It also screened at the Guadalajara FF, Cinema Jove, Huelva FF, Dhaka FF, among others. In August 2025, she completed her MFA in Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts thanks to the TSOA Scholarship and the Maurice Kanbar Scholarship.

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