Valeria Navarrete Ferrari on Her Documentary 'Las Niñas de Alfredo de Musset' and the Split Between Home and Street

Key facts

• Valeria Navarrete Ferrari grew up in Mexico City and first came to New York at 15 for a summer film photography program at Columbia University.
• Her thesis documentary 'Las Niñas de Alfredo de Musset' premiered at the Parsons BFA Thesis Exhibition in May 2025 and is now in post-production.
• The film is set in an apartment at Alfredo de Musset number 27 in Polanco, where her mother moved with her four daughters in summer 2013.
• The documentary centers on Juanita, Carmen, and Mari, the women who raised her, and addresses the femicide of Janet Córdova, a cousin of one of them.
• Navarrete Ferrari shoots her documentary and portrait work on digital and her street photography on film.
• She coordinates film and television production in New York for Atlantic Pictures.
• She has worked with Kurimanzutto, Allouche Gallery, and Georgina Pounds Gallery.
• She attended the Women Economic Forum summit in New Delhi in April 2019 at age 17 and later served as a delegate for Women Economic Forum Iberoamérica during United Nations General Assembly Week.
• She is trilingual in Spanish, English, and French, and studied Italian at the Lycée Franco-Mexicain.
• Her series on machismo internalizado features a composite character named Juan Pablo.