Monica Cohen is a passionate Colombian filmmaker and music composer dedicated to social documentaries focusing on art and culture. Monica is the founder of The Boom House Productions, a video and music production house based in Boston, MA.  She co-produced My Name is Pedro, an award-winning documentary film that premiered at Woodstock Film Festival in 2016. She moved to Boston where she Directed and Produced Boston’s Latin Quarter (2019), a short documentary film about the importance of the preservation of cultural enclaves within a city.

Monica’s first award-winning feature documentary film Dreams of Chonta (2020), a story about the hopes and dreams of a talented musician from the Pacific coast of Colombia living undocumented in NYC, has been selected in multiple film festivals in the US and Latin America. Recently, Monica was one of the co-directors of Connections: No One is an Island, a global multi-media interactive story about the connections and experiences people shared throughout the pandemic, a project that made its debut at CPH: DOX in April 2021. She later co-directed the short documentary More Than Mas’ (2022) with anthropologist Rosalyn Negrón. Monica continues to create powerful pieces rooted in storytelling sparking important conversations that put culture and art in the center of social transformation and human connection.