Carmen Gloria Pérez is a filmmaker, writer, actor, and founder of MOONFRAME, an AI-native creative studio producing award-winning speculative, documentary, and expressionist cinematic work.
She is the recipient of the 2025 John McCarthy Award for AI Filmmaking (AI Week Milan). Her films include The Secret Life Of DisPlay Artists, recently one of the 20 finalists at the Artefact AI Film Festival - in collaboration with MK2 & Artefact.
Other notable projects: The Mars Novella, one of the films screened for the United Nations AI for the Future Festival (UNEA-7, Nairobi, Dec. 2025), winner of Best Science Fiction at AIMF & the Prediction Award at BAIFF; and Flower of the Valley, winner of Best Documentary at AIFF Amsterdam, the Photography Award at BAIFF, Best Score + Script at AI Film Awards - Marrakesh Edition 2025, also featured on RAI Cinema’s digital platform in 2025.
Carmen spent over a decade working internationally as an actress, with more than 40 screen credits including Netflix’s A Storm for Christmas & Young Royals. She holds a B.A. in Government & International Politics and is a military veteran.
In addition, in the past 4 years, she has also worked freelance within a traditional film and television production company, supporting projects across operations, finance, and executive-level coordination and overall assistance, gaining firsthand experience in the business, logistical, and financial structures behind large-scale productions. This dual perspective, creative and operational, informs her current work developing original IP, innovative storytelling pipelines, and future-facing production models through MOONFRAME.
She is now focused on narrative world-building and creator-led cinematic universes. More info. soon -
Pérez is based in Norway & speaks native English, Spanish, fluent Norwegian + beginning Swedish.