Get in touch at: ericamondefilms (at) gmail.com
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About
Erica Monde is a filmmaker, anthropologist and artist from Northern California currently based in Scotland. Their work focuses on the relationships between the body and the environment, queer ecologies, human-animal relations, gender, medicine, ritual, and healing, and embodied methodologies.
They hold an MFA in documentary directing from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, an MA in medical anthropology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and a BA in world religions from California State University.
They also completed additional training in fine arts at at Metafora Studio Arts in Barcelona, Spain, in visual ethnographic filmmaking at the Netherlands Institute at Athens, Greece, and in Buddhist studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. They have conducted anthropological research on the relationship between health, the body, and the environment internationally, and their experience is supplemented by over a decade of practice in somatic practices such as dance, focusing, and movement studies.
They currently run IMPRINT Documentary Collective (@imprint.documentaries), an international, feminist film collective working on embodiment and the body in filmmaking, through which they regularly lecture, lead workshops on filmmaking, oversee short film productions, and conduct research on the role of the body and embodiment practices in documentary filmmaking.
Their short documentary on endometriosis and the Japanese knotweed, There's Not Much We Can Do, was commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute and Screen Scotland for the Bridging the Gap scheme in 2022. It has since premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and has screened in festivals such as DOC:NYC, Raindance (where it was nominated for best short documentary), and Encounters Film Festival.
Erica currently works in academia and tutors on the Film Medicine postgraduate course at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and they have been a guest speaker and lecturer on filmmaking at universities such as UCL, UMass Amherst, the University of Essex, and the University of Oxford. They have designed and delivered filmmaking workshops extensively in collaboration with IMPRINT as well as other film festivals such as the Scottish Queer International Film Festival and the Scottish Mental Health Film Festival.
They are a recent alumni of the Locarno Industry Academy for emerging practitioners in the international film industry, and have worked as a producer and story consultant on BAFTA nominated and award winning short documentaries that have screened at BFI Flare, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Sarajevo, IDFA and Sundance.
Erica was recently commissioned by Screen Scotland and BFI Network for Sharp Shorts to develop their first short fiction film, This desert will rust your bones, and they are currently in development for their first feature film.