Dalissa Montes de Oca is a filmmaker and cinematographer from the Dominican Republic. She has a B.A in Photography (2019) and Film Studies (2021) from Altos de Chavon School of Design. Dalissa Montes de Oca's work engages with the Dominican social and political context, as well as its dualities with the periferia and human surge, in a space between non-fiction, ethnography, and collective memory. Through a sensorial approach to moving images, her works aim to explore subjectivity in cinema and engage with the core of storytelling. In her last short film, Pacaman, she explored both cinema verité and experimental approaches for painting a striking portrait of Santo Domingo. Pacaman premiered at Doc Buenos Aires (2021) and took first prize in (FICUNAM) Competencia Aciertos (2022). The film had its USA premiere at Metrograph NYC, along with the series Unraveling Paradise, curated by Dessane Lopez Cassell. In addition to her filmmaking career, she works as a cinematographer and camera assistant for movie productions.