berenicé brino

Berenicé Brino is a filmmaker born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Miami. Working in both documentary and narrative forms, her films explore intergenerational relationships, memory, and identity, often framed against the backdrop of migration, cultural inheritance, and systems of power.

Her debut film, Te Amo Tanto Pero Eres Tan Dificíl was developed through Third Horizon’s Forward Fellowship (2022) and had its world premiere at True/False Film Festival (2025) The film has since screened internationally and received the First-Time Filmmaker Award at Nitehawk Film Festival (2026). Her work has been supported by the Knight Foundation and JustFilms | Ford Foundation.

In 2025, she received the Cinematic Ellies Award to develop her second project, Bury Me Under The Palms from Oolite Arts which will serve as the foundation for a feature film.

Brino's practice is rooted in bending genre and form, using principles from theatre to inform her cinematic approach, while exploring the tension between performance and reality.

She has held positions at Jax Media in New York and Topple Productions in Los Angeles and currently serves as Head of Development at Easy Mondays. Brino holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New World School of the Arts, in partnership with the University of Florida.