Biography

Frisly Soberanis is a filmmaker, producer, cinematographer and video artist, from Queens, New York via Guatemala. His work has received support from the Tribeca Film Institute's New Media Prototype Fund, Center for Cultural Power, the Lotus Foundation, and the Nelson Mandela Foundation. He has produced and co-produced award-winning narrative short films that have screened at 50+ film festivals across the world including BFI London Film Festival, Frameline, Outfest, Hollyshorts, Cinequest (Best Student Short), and Durban International Film Festival (Special Mention). He served as a producer on the forthcoming narrative short, Roots That Reach Toward The Sky (directed by Jess X. Snow) received support from the Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, as well as The Beguiling (directed by ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby) which world premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Frisly's work has been shown at el Centro de Cultura Digital (CCDMX) in Mexico City, the IFP Made in NY Media Center, the LA Latino International Film Festival and the Queens Museum Science Fiction Festival.

He is a member of Tierra Narrative, a Central American collective and production house connecting the homeland and the diaspora.