Victoria Rivera is a New York-based writer/director who hails from Colombia. Her award-winning short films have screened at Telluride Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Palm Springs Shortfest, where she was awarded a Jury Award in 2019 for Night Swim. In 2018 the Directors Guild of America awarded her the Student Film Award for Verde. She’s currently developing Malpelo, her first feature, which was awarded a screenwriting grant by the Sloan Foundation and has been supported by Film Independent’s Producing Lab, Fast Track Financing Market and, most recently, by selecting Victoria as a 2020 Screenwriting and Directing Lab Fellow.