Jaimar
Marcano Vivas

Awardee

Country

Venezuela

Jaimar Marcano Vivas advocates for free expression through film.

Themes
Free Expression / Civil Society
Reexamining history
Gender equality
Disciplines
Film
Literature
Photography
Awards
SEED Award 2025

Profile

Jaimar Marcano Vivas is an Afro-Venezuelan audiovisual producer, writer, and cultural manager based in Venezuela. After leaving her sociology degree due to the pressures of homelessness and work, Jaimar received a scholarship to study film directing and production. For the past eight years, she has worked professionally on creative and commercial projects, with a focus on experimental work, documentary photography, and film criticism. She is dedicated to chronicling urban life as a shared space for imagining the future. 

Jaimar is co-founder of Manduca, an audiovisual studio that connects artistic narratives while exploring the economic viability of projects within the Venezuelan context. She is currently producing two feature films and developing her first documentary about an emblematic missing artwork in her country.