She holds 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. She also completed additional training in fine arts at at Metafora Studio Arts in Barcelona, Spain, in visual ethnography at the Netherlands Institute at Athens, Greece, and in Buddhist studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her experience is supplemented by over a decade of practice in somatic practices such as dance, focusing, and movement studies.
She is co-founder of IMPRINT Documentary Collective (@imprint.documentaries), an international, feminist film collective working on embodiment and the body in filmmaking, through which she regularly lectures and leads workshops on filmmaking, oversees short film productions, and conducts research on the role of the body and embodiment practices in documentary.
Her 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. She is is a recent alumni of the Locarno Industry Academy for emerging practitioners in the international film industry, and has produced award winning short documentaries that have screened at BFI Flare, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, and Sarajevo International Film Festival.
Erica is currently completing her next short experimental film, i was born in the month of the moon (what my body told me), is in development for her first feature documentary, and was recently commissioned by Screen Scotland and BFI Network for Sharp Shorts to develop her first short fiction film, This desert will rust your bones.
You can follow her work @erica.monde
or get in touch at ericamondefilms@gmail.com