Pamela Bencosme is an emerging filmmaker from the Dominican Republic, currently residing in New York City. She recently completed the FILM program at the Chavón School of Design (2022–2024), where she culminated her studies with her fiction thesis, Depeyize (2024), which was featured at the XXVI International Book Fair in Santo Domingo. It has also received the award for Best Short Film from Central America and the Caribbean at the Costa Rica International Film Festival (CRFIC). It was recently included in the official short film selection for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF) 2025, where it won the Paddington Prize for Best Student Film. Along with screenings at audiovisual exhibitions around the world, including in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic.

Throughout her time at Chavón, Pamela had the opportunity to explore various filmmaking formats and narrative styles, using this period as a transformative phase in both her creative and technical development. Her body of work includes short films such as the hybrid pre-thesis Río de Cristal (2023), presented at the Unibe Short Film Festival (2023); the animated film Nada fluye y todo influye (2023); the Super 8 film El Deseo (2022); and the experimental 16mm short Conexión 5G, among others. Each project has contributed to shaping her distinctive voice as a director and has enriched her artistic vision.

Pamela’s work continues to evolve as she experiments with diverse mediums and explores the intersections of narrative, technology, and human experience. With a passion for storytelling that blends the poetic and the experimental, she is committed to pushing the boundaries of film and visual art in her future projects.