There’s Not Much We Can Do

Erica Monde (they/them) is a filmmaker from Northern California based in Glasgow, Scotland working as a director, writer, and film educator. They currently run IMPRINT Documentary Collective, a queer feminist film collective exploring embodiment and the body in experimental and documentary filmmaking. With a background in anthropology and the visual arts, their work explores themes of the body, the environment, gender, queer ecologies, health and disability at the intersections of documentary, experimental, and fiction filmmaking. Their first film, There’s Not Much We Can Do, explored the relationship between the body, endometriosis, and the invasive Japanese knotweed, and was commissioned by Screen Scotland and the Scottish Documentary Institute for Bridging the Gap. They currently tutor on the Film Medicine course at the University of Edinburgh, hold an MFA in film directing and an MA in medical anthropology, and are an alum of the Locarno Industry Academy. They have also worked as a creative producer and story consultant on BAFTA nominated and award-winning short films that have screened at IDFA, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, BFI Flare, and Sundance. Erica is currently completing their most recent film, commissioned by BFI Network, Screen Scotland, and Short Circuit, entitled This Desert Will Rust Your Bones.