Sisa Quispe is a Quechua Aymara award-winning director, writer, producer, speaker, and host in New York City. As an Indigenous woman, her work largely seeks to inspire the preservation of native ways while sharing a decolonizing message. "Kusi Smiles” featuring Renata Flores is a short film about grief and finding a path of healing in the Andes, set to premiere in 2024 as part of the Latino Film Institute Inclusion Fellowship sponsored by Netflix.
Quispe also wrote, produced, and directed "Urpi: Her Last Wish," a film exploring the complexity of the Indigenous identity, which won The Gotham's 2023 Annual Student Short Film Showcase. Quispe is part of the 4th World Media Fellowship, providing Indigenous creators a progressive immersion into film.
Her popular TEDx talk, "Re-thinking Who We Are Through A Decolonizing Lens," shares her decolonization journey. Quispe hopes to bring more representation of Indigenous women's perspectives and to continue cultivating a path for Indigenous youth to develop their voices.