Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha is a film programmer, researcher, and cultural worker from Brazil based in London. She earned her PhD in Film Studies, conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Campinas (Brazil), and served as a Visiting Fellow at KU Leuven (Belgium), Comenius University, and the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (Slovakia). She is the author of several books and articles on Latin American cinema and women’s filmmaking, and co-edited Refocus: The Films of Lucrecia Martel (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
Barrenha has organised film events for more than a decade and has contributed to festivals and institutions such as Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, BAFICI, CAIXA Cultural, the Cervantes Institute, the London Short Film Festival, and the London Indian Film Festival, among others. She worked as a programme curator at the Cultural Section of the Embassy of Brazil in London, where she created the Helena Solberg Cineclub. She is currently a Film Officer at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland and also collaborates as a programmer with several film festivals and institutions worldwide, including the Jeden Svet Documentary Film Festival in Slovakia. She is also the co-founder of Cinema Mentiré, a pop-up film club promoting Latin American cinema in the UK.