Lara Sousa

Lara Sousa is a director and producer. She is the founder of Kulunga Filmes, a company based in Maputo, focused on fostering the cinematographic production ecosystem in Portuguese-speaking African countries. She is currently producing her first documentary The Ship and the Sea which was selected for the Berlinale Doc Station and won the IDFA Bertha Fund Award at the Durban FilmMart 2020. Lara is a fellow of Digital Lab Africa, and Realness Creative Producers Indaba. She also works as training coordinator for the MiradasDoc Market  a documentary market with a focus on Latin American and African productions.