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Bren María Vienrich-Felling (she/ her) is an international, award-winning Peruvian-born filmmaker, educator, art director and multimedia artist.
With a background in filmmaking, teaching and multimedia design, she has worked with a variety of clients in higher education, retail, SaaS and eLearning industries, in addition to collaborating with independent artists on work that has spanned film, animation, photography, printmaking, and illustration.
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts Experimental and Documentary Arts, Duke University
Certificate in College Teaching,
Duke University
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Studio Art: Design
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Bren’s philosophy as a filmmaker and multimedia artist prioritizes the human touch, recognizing that there are many approaches to artmaking, each shaped by a person’s lived experiences, intentions, and methods of inquiry.
In her art practice, she has explored themes of dual and third-culture identities, tactility, feminism and ecological narratives. Moving image work is at times accompanied by other forms of multimedia expression in her work, which includes printmaking, animation, collage, illustration and photography.
A few projects she has worked on in the past include Talk to Me (2024), an experimental film on plant communication, According to Plan (2025) a film about the controversial Bradford Tree, and Full Moon Over Palcazú (2025), a documentary exploring family, migration, and the relationships between humans and animals in the Peruvian Amazon.
Bren is currently working on the development of a film that navigates how humans make meaning through systems of prediction, whether scientific, agricultural, or cosmological. This research goes towards bringing attention to the dying print culture of The Farmers' Almanac and society’s growing reliance on technological systems that govern human decision-making.
CONTACT
bmvienri@gmail.com
United States
SELECTED CLIENTS
Blue Marble
Black Bird Books
Bona Dea Naturals
The Breathing Room
The Center for Documentary Arts
Cisco
Duke Arts
Drawbridge Media Group
Emerge Ortho Medical
Foot Hero
Galatea Surgical
Hey Ok! Pictures
McAdams
McAfee
The Nasher Museum
North Carolina State University
Sokal Media Agency
State Employees Credit Union, SECU
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
UNC Health Rex
UNC School of Medicine
TEACHING
- CINE 357, Editing for Film and Video, Summer Session II, 2026
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CINE 205, Contemporary Documentary Films, Spring 2026
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CINE 702, Producing Docu-Fiction, Spring 2026
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CINE 210, Horror Cinema, Spring 2026
- CINE 210, Film Genres, Fall 2025
- CINE 205, Contemporary Documentary Films, Summer Session II, 2025
Co-Instructor/ Teaching Assistant, Duke University
- CINE 745, The Nature Film: History and Practice, Spring 2025
- ARTVIS 238, Digital Printmaking: Exploring Printmaking, Fall 2024
- ENERGY 394, Bass Connections: Climate Hope, Fall 2024
- ARTVIS 290, Special Topics in Visual Arts: Design and Printing, Spring 2024
Workshop Instructor
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Observing Nature: Turmeric Anthotypes Workshop, Spring 2025
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Developing 16mm B&W Film, Spring 2025
- Inky Dinks: Producing Natural Pigments, Spring 2024
SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS, PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
- London Short Film Festival
- Coldharbour Blue Independent Film Programming
- Moviate Underground Film Festival
- Micropolitan Film Festival
- Buenos Aires International Film Festival
- Beaufort Film Festival
- Cosmic Rays Film Festival
- Durham UK Film Festival
- Cindependent Film Festival
- Carrboro Film Festival
- Longleaf Film Festival
- F-Stop Photography Magazine
- Slow Exposures Print Catalog
- Duke University Allen Building Exhibition
- Hampton House Gallery Exhibition
- Slow Exposures Juried Exhibition
- Artopia Exhibition at The Fruit
- FRESH Exhibition, Artspace
- Monster Drawing Rally, North Carolina Museum of Art