Monica Henriquez is a Venezuelan/Dutch freelance film and video editor/director, based in the UK since 1978. Her family roots are in Curacao, the birthplace of her father. She trained at the BBC in the 1980s, and worked as an editor for Channel Four (UK) in several projects on Latin America, notably the Marc Karlin Nicaragua Series 1985-1991; Faction Films Fidel 1998.
For ZDF editor Iranian Journey 1998 and co-director/editor for ZDF/Citurna (Colombia) Wartakes, 2003. For the US network PBS/Scribe Video Center, editor of WEB Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices,1995 and was researcher/associate producer of The Hugo Chavez Show Frontline, 2008. She was Producer/Director of Gynecological Chronicles 1992 and Director/Editor of Murder & the Feather Boa 1996, both for Channel Four UK. She has an interest in the uses of archive, home movies and the creative explorations of history. For almost 2 decades she has been filming and building a digital archive on Venezuela in the times of Hugo Chavez & beyond.