Jahaira Daga Acevedo is a Peruvian writer/director based in Austin, Texas, whose work often explores themes of coming of age, sexuality, and Latin American culture, through a personal, poetic, and hybrid lens.
She has directed both fiction and documentary short films that have screened at Cine Festival San Antonio, Muestra Itinerante at Festival de Cine de Lima, Festival de Cine Peruano en Madrid, Mexic-Arte Museum, among others.
She holds a B.A. in Audiovisual Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and is a graduate candidate for the M.F.A. in Film & Media Production at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jahaira also works in sound production and editing for fiction and documentary projects between Texas and Lima. She is currently developing her first feature, a non-fiction film about womanhood in Cerro de Pasco, a mining town in the Peruvian Andes.
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