Marialuisa Ernst

Marialuisa Ernst, (she/they) Director, Producer, Writer is a New York–based queer transcultural artist originally from Bolivia and Chile. For the past decade, she has created intimate, political cinema shaped by her background in performance art. Her work explores personal loss, memory, and the invisible threads that connect humanity beyond nationality and borders. As a non-binary mother and feminist, she challenges dominant power structures and wants to amplify silenced voices.

A PLACE OF ABSENCE is her feature debut, supported by the Tribeca Gucci Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYC Women’s Fund. The film has been selected for the DOC NYC Forum, the Gotham (formerly IFP) Lab, the Tribeca Film Network, Visions du Réel Industry Network, DCTV’s WIP Lab (with Yance Ford), the BGDM Feedback Loop, the NALIP Media Summit Fellowship, and FEMCINE Work in Progress. She is a member of the International Documentary Association (IDA), the Documentary Producers Alliance (DPA), and Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM).