Florencia Davidzon
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Florencia Davidzon is a writer and filmmaker whose work bridges the USA, Mexico, and Argentina. She holds an MFA from Maine Media College and is completing a second MFA in Creative Writing at NYU.
Florencia crafts compelling narratives in both fiction and nonfiction, directing documentaries and narrative films that explore human connection, humanity in its striving, and cultural intersections.
Her short film Christmas, which she co-wrote, directed, and produced, premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival (2015) and went on to screen at the Sunscreen Film Festival in Florida and the Guanajuato Film Festival in Mexico. It won the Award of Merit at BestShorts in two categories: Women Filmmakers and Latin/Hispanic Films. Her feature-length documentary The Marching Quixotes premiered in Madrid and earned the Best Student Film award at the Oregon Film Awards (2017).
Fueled by curiosity and an insatiable drive to innovate, she has created several experimental essay films, including ArgenChina, Jade, Back to Dad's Home, and As Usual Bill.
Florencia was invited to creative writing residencies in Mexico, including Kino Magdalena in Sonora and the Instituto Sonorense de Cultura, where she developed her screenplay Violeta. Though a finalist for the Sundance Utah Writing Lab, the script evolved into her debut novel The Obstinacy of the Ashes.
She also participated in the Dramaturgy Clinic at C.A.S.A. in Oaxaca, where she discovered her voice as a playwright. This experience led to Cumbia Calea and later Plaza de las Américas, a series of four short plays performed at Mexico City's Centro Cultural Helénico in 2020. Her other works include the plays Exodus, Guerrero, and Under the Grapevine, with a her most actual titled Shell.
Florencia second novel, Dust's Whispers, she envisions adapting into a film script. She has ventured into poetry, a medium she once found intimidating but then embraced is as she found both therapeutic and creatively enriching.
Florencia crafts compelling narratives in both fiction and nonfiction, directing documentaries and narrative films that explore human connection, humanity in its striving, and cultural intersections.
Her short film Christmas, which she co-wrote, directed, and produced, premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival (2015) and went on to screen at the Sunscreen Film Festival in Florida and the Guanajuato Film Festival in Mexico. It won the Award of Merit at BestShorts in two categories: Women Filmmakers and Latin/Hispanic Films. Her feature-length documentary The Marching Quixotes premiered in Madrid and earned the Best Student Film award at the Oregon Film Awards (2017).
Fueled by curiosity and an insatiable drive to innovate, she has created several experimental essay films, including ArgenChina, Jade, Back to Dad's Home, and As Usual Bill.
Florencia was invited to creative writing residencies in Mexico, including Kino Magdalena in Sonora and the Instituto Sonorense de Cultura, where she developed her screenplay Violeta. Though a finalist for the Sundance Utah Writing Lab, the script evolved into her debut novel The Obstinacy of the Ashes.
She also participated in the Dramaturgy Clinic at C.A.S.A. in Oaxaca, where she discovered her voice as a playwright. This experience led to Cumbia Calea and later Plaza de las Américas, a series of four short plays performed at Mexico City's Centro Cultural Helénico in 2020. Her other works include the plays Exodus, Guerrero, and Under the Grapevine, with a her most actual titled Shell.
Florencia second novel, Dust's Whispers, she envisions adapting into a film script. She has ventured into poetry, a medium she once found intimidating but then embraced is as she found both therapeutic and creatively enriching.