Our dirty questions to Llaima Sanfiorenzo [Video]

Joshua Polanski interviews the director of And Still The Seed, a “decidedly anti-colonial” film about the bond between trees and people; they talk about Llaima’s native Puerto Rico, trees older than Christopher Columbus, non-human life as film protagonists, and much more!

Llaima Suwani Sanfiorenzo is a Puerto Rican filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. She was born in Florida and raised in the countryside of the Caribbean island. She studied at the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. She won a scholarship to study cinematography in Potsdam, near the German capital. Since 2014, she worked as a cinematographer and film producer on various short films. Her directorial debut And Still the Seed, which premiered at the Atlanta Film Festival earlier this year. Our writer Joshua Polanski – who now interviews Llaima – argues that the filmmaker “skilfully connects the destruction of Puerto Rican greenery with colonialism and colonialism’s economic cousin, capitalism”

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