Fana Adjani

November 12, 2025

She directed the short film TIERRA, which has been selected for various film festivals such as the Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival in Calgary, Canada, where it won the Programmer’s Choice Award for Best Short Film, also at Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022, MICGénero 2022, and most recently at the Seattle Queer Film Festival and the prestigious Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival 2023 in Los Angeles, California, also in Los Angeles, the short film was featured in an exclusive screening for the GAVLAK Gallery of Contemporary Art; and in 2023 TIERRA was included in the film archive of the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, for preservation. Rolling Stone magazine (USA) commented that TIERRA was “wonderfully directed.”

She has had exhibitions as an artist in museums such as the Museo Universitario del Chopo (UNAM) where she served as the general coordinator of the TIERRA Cycle in 2022, and presented her work/installation SE ENCUENTRAN, SE ACOMPAÑAN with the support of the Nelson Mandela Department and the Botanical Garden of the Biology Institute of UNAM. Her work has also been featured in the MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art-UNAM) and in spaces such as the National Palace of Fine Arts. Her audiovisual work WHOLE BODY was presented at the Overkill Festival in the Netherlands and later a ForbesLife Exclusive. In 2018 she served as part of the Danza UNAM Advisory Council directed by Evoé Sotelo.