Jimena Mora

Producer and Editor of DOCUPERU.

Master of Arts from Kyoto University of the Arts, Japan. After completing her studies, she returned to Peru where she joined DOCUPERU, a non-profit civil association dedicated to the production and professional teaching of community-based and participatory documentary films. In 2019, she was awarded the National Award for the Development of Documentary Feature Films for the project A Woman Called Cristina. Her first projects as a director include Inside Out (Kyoto 2011), Memories and Flowers (Huancabamba 2015), and Aurora (San Martín 2018). In 2022, she was Assistant Director of the web documentary series Nuez de Madre De Dios (Madre De Dios 2022), a project that won the FINNOF Festival (Argentina) and the Cusco Web Fest. In 2023, together with José Balado, he won the Artistic Residency at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, where they co-directed Verde que te quiero Verde (Ukiha 2023).

In recent years, she formed a creative duo with José Balado (director of DOCUPERU), with whom she has established various collaborations in both documentary and fiction, such as the short films Rojo Crisol (Huaytará 2023) and O'Shoyu Monogatari (Fukuoka 2025). In 2023, they won the National Fund for the Development of Fiction Feature Films as co-directors and co-writers with the project La Tribu Sol, to be filmed in Fukuoka, Japan. Since 2020, she has been co-director of Futari Proyectos, dedicated to the research of films made by Asian female directors and Peruvian Nikkei Cinema.