Selected Works 



      Veronica is a director, cinematographer and visual artist curious about the world. Prefers the outdoors.

      For fifteen years, Verónica has been working in the film industry. Educated at film school in Los Angeles, she is founder of Light+Noise, a boutique film production company.

      Her most recent documentary Caretaker was a personal story about her family, and screened at over thirty film festivals. Her previous work has been officially selected by SXSW and exhibited at the Getty Museum.




      She is a documentary programmer at VBIFF, a community organizer at Video Consortium:LA, and her work has been supported by organizations such as Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Film Independent, and the Indigenous Journalists Association. 

      She has served as a mentor of the AXS Film Fund's 2024 cohort. She has been a film fellow at BendFilm as well as selected for IDFAcademy. 



      She directs commercials and is represented by Minted Content in Los Angeles.



      She is also a photographer, working in fashion, lifestyle, and product. Examples of her work can be seen with Target’s launch of Native shampoo & conditioner. She has also photographed campaigns for fashion brands such as for Made in Earth and CoolJams.


      Beyond her photo and video work, she is also a contributing journalist and COO at the nonprofit IndigenousNetwork, where she was awarded the 'Ethnic Media Service' award from California State in 2023 and runner up for the ‘Global Affairs’ award in 2024.

      She is a current journalist fellow at the Jeff Bezos Earth Fund and the recipent of the LMA Google News Cohort 2025.






       

      Festival Selections and Awards

      As cinematographer: South by Southwest | Cinequest Film Festival | Palm Beach International Film Festival | Ashland Independant FIlm Festival | Byron Bay Film Festival | New Orleans Film Festival | Ann Arbor Film Festival | Atlanta Film Festival | Alpha-Ville Festival | Royal Reel Award | Malibu Film Festival
      Park City Film Music Festival | Henson International Festival | Fantadia International Festival | Hamburg International Independent Film Festival | Bahamas International Film Festival | Multivision Festival


      As director: DocNYC | Dallas International Film Festival | Dubai International Film Festival | Buenos Aires International Film Festival | Los Angeles Women’s Film Festival | AFIN | New Delhi International Film Festival | Budapest Shorts Fest | Sunday Shorts | Dances With Films | Director Talents Awards | Mirada Corta | VBIFF | Dumbo Film Festival | Hollywood Shortsfest | Paris International Film Festival