ABOUT

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

RESEARCH & ART PRACTICE

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

LinkedIn
bmvienri@gmail.com

Durham, North Carolina
United States

SELECTED CLIENTS

Blakeslee Media Agency
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

Kimley-Horn
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

Cinematic Arts Instructor, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University

CINE 357, Editing for Film and Video, Summer Session II, 2026
CINE 205, Contemporary Documentary Films, Spring 2026
CINE 702, Producing Docu-Fiction, Spring 2026
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

Observing Nature: Turmeric Anthotypes Workshop, Spring 2025
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