Vanessa Mujica Garcia

Vanessa Mujica Garcia was born in Caracas in 1977 to a director father and a photographer mother.

At the age of 5 she emigrated to Italy and then to France where she lived with her mother for over 20 years.
His father went back to Venezuela, giving him the opportunity very early to be on the film sets.

From the age of 15 she worked for the production as a translator on "Un Indien de la Ville", a big French production, and then accumulated small contracts as a prop-maker or camera assistant on Venezuelan productions.

Living in France for the most part, she obtained a master's degree in sociology in 2000 and made her first sociological documentary for the university on the theme of the place of the individual in French cities.

She then worked as an assistant director on dozens of projects including "Pink Panther", "Big Fish" but also "Vers le Sud" by Laurent Cantet, documentaries and commercials.
These projects will take him to shoot in several countries such as Morocco, Thailand or the Dominican Republic.

In 2005, she directed and produced her second documentary "Dialogue of the Deaf" which was selected for the FIPA, the Human Rights Festival and won first prize at the Women's Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2006. The film will be released in Paris and Caracas.

In 2007 she emigrated to Canada, to Montreal and worked as an assistant director on several projects.

In 2015 she decided to move into production and signed the production direction on "CODA" and some Quebec series, then the delegated production of "Mont Foster" and "Woman in Car", two films that were released in 2020.
She is also co-producer with Sébastien Poussard of the film "Mont Foster" and the film "Les Tricheurs" which will be released in August 2022. She has also done servicing for several American (Apple, Volkswagen), United Arab Emirates (Venice Biennale) and French (Syndrôme E) projects.

Today, she is well established in Montreal and has created Casa Films with Sébastien Poussard in order to continue working in film and television production for Montreal and the world.