Berenicé Brino

Biography

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), went on to screen at the 42nd Miami Film Festival, and has received invitations from Rhode Island International Film Festival, Buenos Aires International Film Festival, DOC.BOSTON, and DOC.SYDNEY. 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.