A graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Trinidad, and Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. Amir Aether Valen is a filmmaker from Trinidad & Tobago who likes to explore the mirrors of man’s being as found in nature, and poetically reflect upon the psychospiritual nature of the self through meditative films that follow human relationships with their internal and external worlds. A multiple award-winner at the Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival, Amir’s short films have been screened internationally at festivals including Sheffield DocFest, True/False and Third Horizon, and has been showcased at cultural institutions such as the Pérez Art Museum of Miami and DokLeipzig. His development includes the Directing Studio of Talents Guadalajara, the Caribbean Film Academy, and Nuevas Miradas, to name a few. He is a former education facilitator of the Living Water Community’s Ministry for Migrants and Refugees, and is currently a lecturer at UWI where he delivers the “Introduction to Cinema”, “History of Narrative Cinema”, “Cinemas of Latin America” and “Directing” courses.
