Laura Huertas Millán (Colombia, 1983) is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist whose practice stands at the intersection between cinema, contemporary art, and research. Her films have been selected in major cinema festivals such as the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Cinéma du Réel; and have earned prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Doclisboa, and Videobrasil, among others. More than twenty retrospectives of her work have been organized around the globe in cinematheques such as TIFF Lightbox (Toronto), Harvard Film Archive (Massachusetts), Bogota ́cinematheque; and in leading film festivals including Mar del Plata, Rencontres du Documentaire de Montréal, and Thessaloniki Doc.
In the art field, Huertas Millán has had numerous solo exhibitions; recent exhibitions include MASP São Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, and Modern Art Museum Medellin. Her films have also been exhibited and screened in esteemed institutions including Centre Pompidou Paris, Jeu de Paume, Guggenheim Museum, Times Art Berlin; and in biennials such as Liverpool Biennial, FRONT Triennial, Videobrasil, and Videonale. Her films are included in the private and public collections of KADIST (San Francisco), Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris), Banco de la República de Colombia, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (Miami), and FRAC Lorraine (Metz), among others.
Huertas Millán holds a practice-based PhD on Ethnographic Fictions developed between PSL University (SACRe program) and the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She works regularly as an educator. Since 2019, Huertas Millán has been part of a research-based duo with curator Rachael Rakes on critical anthropology and the aesthetics and politics of the encounter.