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 — a Black List Recommended script, one of the highest-ranked projects on the platform and winner of Best Comedy from Outstanding Screenplays. UPWARD MIAMI is an English-language dramedy pilot about a business school grad who becomes a nanny for a powerful Miami Beach family, among the top scripts currently hosted on the site and 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.