Licenciada in Psychology. Associated EOL Mendoza Delegation. She successfully completed the Specialization in Production of Critical Texts and Media Dissemination of the Arts (UNA); Diploma in Creative Writing at Untreff and The New York Film Academy´s 1 Week Filmmaking at New York. She is currently studying scriptwriting for movies and series at Script Lab. She is author of Reincarnations. Audiovisual short stories.
Creator of “Reincarnations. Artistic Experimentation”, an arts project launched in 2008, and of Plus+Art, a day-long multi-arts event presented yearly since 2013, recipient of the Art and Culture Gold Award “Best of Mendoza’s Wine Tourism” in 2017. Nafissi’s arts events have been presented at Balcón de Las Artes of Park Hyatt Mendoza (2018-2019).
Gabriela Nafissi has developed and manages cultural projects based on artistic experimentation devices that articulate various art fields and languages, whereby she explores and develops her interest in the areas of convergence of the arts and psychoanalysis. she was named Distinguished Woman of the City of Mendoza by Salón Cultural Seguros Rivadavia y Seguros Rivadavia Coop. Ltda., in recognition of her remarkable career and contribution to society (2018).
Nafissi is the author of Reincarnations. Audiovisual short stories (2012), and of the artistic experimentation projects: Signs of an Artist (2014-2015), Extimacies of Daily Life (2015-2016), Four Elephants on their Stepladders (2015-2018), Center and Absence (2016-2019), including “Dark, Dark Continent”, “Women, One By One”, and “The Stone on the Path”. Tarabust. Voiceless and Sonorous (2017-2018). Curating. Creations and Interventions (2018-2019). V27dr A Poetic Mathema for the Artistic Cause (2019-2021), Routes and Drifts (2022-2023)
She was the screenwriter for the un-produced screenplay: Pampero. She was the screenwriter and director of " La piedra en el camino" (2021) and for the short film “Elephant Escabeaux” . She was also director and screenwriter for Signs of an Artist (Gold Prize, Best Experimental Short Film, International Film Festival for Women, Social Issues and Zero Discrimination in Indonesia, Jakarta, 2016. She co-directed the experimental short film Rewritings (2013, in the amateur category), together with Ramiro Navarro.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Pampero (2022)
 Best short film script at Greece film Festival Awards (2023).
 Best unproduced script at World Independent Cinema Awards (Wica) in Edinburgh, Scotland (2022)
 Best non-produced short film script at Madrid International Film Festival, 2022.
 Official selection of World Cine Fest (2023) and Spain International Film Festival (2023)
 Finalist at Paris World Cinema Festival (2024).
 Semifinalist at Scriptapalooza. Screenplay Competition &Shorts Competition (2023), Hollywood.
 Selected in Chicago Script Awards, Golden Art Film (category). Winter Edition (2024).

La piedra en el camino /The stone in the path (2021).
 Best Documentary Award at Wildsound Festival (2024), Los Angeles and FILMAHAUS (2024), Berlin.
 Best production at Close Film Festival (Tabriz-Iran; 2023); also in the Main Category at the Venus Community Awards festival (Istanbul, 2023).
 Best documentary, best production in the Second edition of the international Tabriz Cinema Awards festival (Iran, 2023).
 Best Director (Tokyo, Japan, 2022) at Tokyo International Short Film Festival (Special Jury Prize).
 Best Documentary Short Film at the Rome Short Film Festival (Special Jury Selection. 2022).
 Best documentary, "Outstanding achievement" at Black Swan International Film Festival in India Calcutta “(2021).
 Honorable Mention at the London International Monthly Film Festival; Best International Documentary at the Hollywood International Golden Age Festival (New York, 2021).
 Filmfest International Film Festival (India, 2021).
 Best International Documentary at the Vancouver Independent Film Festival (Canada, 2021).
 Quarterfinals for Best Documentary Short Film at Belgrade Film Festival (2023), in Serbia.
 Semi-finalist at Faro International Film Festival (2024), in Portugal.
Inaugural Intervention
 Honorable mention as experimental short film at Post Cinema Festival (Siracusa, Sicily), in 2024.

Elephant escabeaux (2016)
 Best experimental film at Cinema Internacionale- Venezia, 2017.
 Best female direction.
 Best animated feature film at the Arte Non Stop Film Festival in 2017.
Artist signs:
 Gold Award for Best Experimental Short Film at the International Film Festival for Women, Social Issues and Zero Discrimination in Indonesia, Jakarta, in 2016

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