About

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

She is currently packaging projects across film and television, including BARILOCHE, a dramatic comedy about five sisters traveling across Argentina to scatter their father's ashes, and UPWARD MIAMI, an English-language dramedy pilot set in the world of Miami Beach privilege and aspiration. Both projects have been recognized on The Black List.

Cifuentes 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 stories with global resonance.

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, NY and Miami that continues to inform her perspective as a filmmaker.