Francesca Carvallo

Francesca Carvallo (Santiago, Chile, 1996) is a Chilean audiovisual artist, filmmaker, and experimental creator whose work reflects a deep connection with nature and a fascination with the relationship between the body and its environment. She works across photography, analog animation, live visuals, poetic writing, and sound—often using organic and intimate materials such as menstrual blood and fungi, not only as mediums but as central metaphors and narrative elements.

For Francesca, creation is a form of play, resistance, and deep listening. She seeks a symbiosis between art, nature, and the inner world; letting her body become a compass in a world dominated by speed and hyper-productivity. Through seasonal awareness, movement, and experimentation, she explores the creative potential of wandering, waiting, getting lost, and rediscovering.

She holds a degree in Audiovisual Direction and Social Communication from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and has participated in several international labs and residencies including Fulgor Lab (Madrid), Pedvāle Art Residency (Latvia), and Vórtice (Chile). Her creative journey has taken her across Europe, particularly the Netherlands and Spain, where she continues to learn on the move.

Her practice is marked by constant motion, physical, geographic, and conceptual and an ongoing search for languages that expand sensory and spiritual perception.
In 2018, she directed her first short film for Encuentro Pieles, where she continued working until 2022, producing short films and digital content. In 2020, she co-created Pandémica with Nina Salvador, followed by the research for Vaginada in 2022.

She has worked as director of photography and editor for Ecosport (2021), and joined Más Verde Productions, contributing to a variety of sustainable audiovisual projects. That same year, she directed Rockeras: Salvemos El Maipo for Patagonia Films, with whom she continues to collaborate.

In 2022, Francesca began curating for Pieles Film Festival and later moved to Rotterdam, where she worked with the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), first as a collaborator and later as an ambassador and content creator in 2024. She is the founder of Corto Migrante, an itinerant film festival by and for migrants, which premiered in Rotterdam in 2025 and is set to travel further.

Currently, Francesca is focused on her personal artistic practice and the creation of shared, non-formal learning spaces. She leads workshops on animation, creative writing, and experimental engagement with emotions on the geographic space.

She is also co-founder of CíclicasFilm, a creative duo with Nina Salvador, where they explore intimacy on screen through projects like Pandémica (2021), Vaginada (in development), and a continuous video correspondence that nourishes both their friendship and artistic collaboration.