Emilia Sánchez Chiquetti

Emilia is an Argentine-Brazilian director and producer who graduated from the University of the Arts in Buenos Aires.

She specializes in creating audiovisual, theatrical, and extended reality (XR) pieces that explore the synergies between bodies, spaces, and narratives.

Her latest project, Origen, premiered at the 80th Venice Film Biennale. It received the Unity for Humanity grant in 2021 and was a finalist for the XR AWE Prize. In 2023 it was nominated in the Best Social Impact project category at the Unity Awards and won the recognition of Best Storytelling at the Art VR Festival in Prague.

Emilia has produced and directed over 70 360-degree commercials in South America, Central America, the United States, and Europe.

She directed the 360-degree live streaming of the Cosquín Rock Argentina festival, which was viewed by 170,000 people.

In 2015, Emilia founded Presencias, a studio that produces interdisciplinary works, including the first immersive theater play in Bogotá's planetarium dome.

Her debut film, "El próximo guardián," was awarded at the SHH International Mountain Film Festival.

Emilia has written and directed theatrical plays in unconventional spaces and created immersive content for various museums and national parks, including the Ministry of Tourism of Argentina, Ministry of Culture of Argentina, Pueblos Auténticos, Generación Dorada for Tecnópolis, Parques Nacionales Esteros del Iberá, Torres del Paine, and others.

She established a workshop-laboratory for performance poetry research in immersive narratives at the National University of the Arts and served as a curator for the XRAR Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina.