Film
Director
Award-winning Independent Writer & Director based on the subtropical island of Madeira, Portugal. Three-time winner and seven-time nominee — including Best Director — known for her evocative, experimental, and unorthodox vision and style.
Crafted from centuries of stories.
A lineage forged in mystery.
Cinema as heirloom.
Cinematic Alchemist. Visual Poet.
The House of Ferrera is not newly founded.
It is newly revealed.
Ava Ferrera is the founder and artistic voice behind the House of Ferrera, a cinematic atelier rooted in a multicultural lineage that spans histories. Guided by the motto Amê Origo, her work is grounded in the belief that soul, love, memory, and inheritance are the origins of creation.
Ferrera approaches cinema as both archaeology and alchemy: a process of uncovering the obscured, restoring the forgotten, and transforming ancestral echoes into contemporary visual language. Her films explore the tension between flesh and myth, shadow and devotion, sensuality and sovereignty. With an eye for baroque composition, Mediterranean emotionality, and geometric mysticism, she constructs images that feel both ancient and startlingly intimate.
Today, the House of Ferrera stands as a continuation of that heritage — a modern manifestation of a lineage kept alive through memory, imagination, and craft. Ferrera’s work is not driven by trend or speed, but by permanence, ritual, and the endurance of beauty. She creates films as heirlooms: crafted with care, imbued with history, and meant to outlive the present.
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Director's Statement
HOUSE OF FERRERA
Evocative. Intimate. Human.
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Ava Ferrera
Storytelling is making the abstract visual and mystifying the mundane — taking us on a journey of evocative stories, emotions and visuals which are transformative, sensorial and reminiscent experiences.
All you need is a vision and an encounter… for a creation to come to life. Storytelling is not about "being", but rather "becoming".
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