Elaine was born in 1980, and currently living in Cooper City, Florida. She received her undergraduate degree in Literature at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas.
In parallel, her interests for documentary photography and filmmaking was being developed through many independent courses including at the University of the Arts in London, allowing her to work, exhibit and publish her documentary photographs many times.
Throughout this dual and never quarreled inclination towards images and words, she decided to pursue Documentary Filmmaking in 2008 at the New York Film Academy, where non-fiction visual storytelling became an artistic and intellectual space that allowed her to explore the humane by combining creative writing and deep research, with her instinctive motivation for visual aesthetics and photography.
After graduating, she worked at the Brooklyn-based production company Flicker Flacker Films, as assistant editor for a History Channel feature-length documentary “The Naturalized”, working with the Emmy-winner documentarian Aaron Lubarsky. The she was accepted for an internship at Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanics in the Original Production & Development Department, she moved to Miami, where she currently resides.
In 2011, Elaine co-founded a contemporary photography gallery in Wynwood, The Lunch Box Gallery. They decided to close the gallery in 2014, but continued with their creative space, The Lunch Box Studio, where she currently works on commissions. Elaine also offers non fiction video services.
In parallel, Elaine pursues her own stories and documentaries; being the last one, “Uncanny: The Dolls of Mariana Monteagudo” (2018), a short film about this Venezuelan artist, her creative process and her inspirations behind her intriguing, eerie and culturally hybrid doll sculptures, all made of repurposed materials that were originally waste. The film won a regional Emmy-Award 2020, it won the PBS festival “The Film-maker Project” earning local and national broadcast and distribution and it is winner of Best Documentary 2019 of the Miami Independent Film Festival.
Elaine has always been obsessed with grammar and linguistics—her academic career and her passion. She has worked as a proofreader, creative writer, and editor, leading the editorial efforts for a Telecomm company and worked as a proofreader for an academic publishing house. In 2025, she embarked on a journey into children’s literature, publishing her book about impatience and slowing down, titled “Turn Me Orange Pleaseeeee”. Currently, she is in the illustration stage of her second children’s book.
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