Amada Torruella

Amada Torruella is a Salvadoran artist, filmmaker, and film programmer raised in El Salvador and Canada, and based between El Salvador and California. Amada’s work centers joy and tenderness in the mundane; she is passionate about exploring memory, grief, Central American landscapes and the relationship between people and home. In 2023 their short documentary, la isla, about mass detentions in El Salvador premiered with The New Yorker. Amada’s work has also been featured at Blackstar Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Vena Acuatica is Amada’s first feature film, the project received early support when being named a finalist at the IF/THEN Global Pitch Competition on Environmental Stories in 2019 at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Amada’s cultural work leading community storytelling labs and site-specific public artworks has received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation, Surdna Foundation and NALAC.