Victoria Sendra is a NYC-based cinematographer and camera operator, best known for her onstage work in Network on Broadway (dir. Ivo van Hove, feat. Bryan Cranston). Her dance films have screened at Cinedans (Mother Melancholia, dir. Samantha Shay, co-commissioned by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Audience Award 2022 for Best Dance Short), Nowness, Dance Camera West, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center, and several of her photographs have printed in the New York Times. Commercial clients include Vogue, Versace, Uniqlo, and the New York Philharmonic. She is currently a producer, cinematographer, and editor with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and worked previously as a bilingual producer at the Latin American production company Red Creek, for clients including Pepsi, Discovery, and Netflix.

"My specialty is in dance film and my work is inspired by contact improvisation. My background in dance allows for intuitive camera work that creates unique and immersive filmmaking. I’m happiest while working on set. It’s collaborative, invigorating, inspiring, immersive, technical, and creative in ways that challenge me and spur my growth."  Victoria Sendra

I met Victoria when I brought her on to film my project Fourteen Porches on Governors Island in June 2024. It was inspiring to meet a cinematographer with a background in movement and dance. 

Victoria understands the camera as an extension of her body, fluidly moving through space, intuitively responding to what is happening around her. Thank you Victoria for spending time with us teaching techniques for a movement-based approach to cinematography. 

- Stanzi Vaubel (NYAP faculty in Film, Media & Performing Arts)