About

CLAUDIA CIFUENTES is a New York-based writer, director, and producer developing a slate of character-driven film and television through her production banner, Tropica Films. Her work blends sharp comedic sensibility with emotionally grounded storytelling, exploring ambition, family, and identity through visually rich, cinematic narratives.

She is currently packaging two projects across film and television, both recognized on The Black List. BARILOCHE is a dramatic comedy about five sisters traveling across Argentina to scatter their father's ashes, one of the highest-ranked projects on The Black List. UPWARD MIAMI is an English-language dramedy pilot about a business school grad who becomes a nanny for a powerful Miami Beach family, also recognized on The Black List and currently circulating with top production companies.

She began her career working alongside director Michael Mann and producer Lynda Obst, experiences that shaped her commitment to ambitious, filmmaker-driven storytelling. She later returned to New York to found Tropica Films as a home for original, globally resonant projects.

Her debut feature AFTER THE WEDDING screened at the Bahamas International Film Festival. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Cifuentes is of Guatemalan descent and draws on a bicultural upbringing between Queens, New York and Miami that shapes her point of view as a filmmaker.