Born and raised in Lima, Claudia has been recognized as one of the ten most prominent filmmakers in Peru. She came to the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship to study film, then she was accepted into the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Directing program in Los Angeles where she was awarded the Mary Pickford Foundation Endowed Scholarship in recognition of her work. Claudia was the recipient of the Franklin J. Schaffner Fellow Award for directing her thesis film EL AMERICANO which also won a Student Emmy in the drama category. In 2015, she wrote and directed an award-winning narrative feature, I REMEMBER YOU.

Claudia most recently directed the 2019 Hot Docs Audience award-winning documentary MAXIMA, about an illiterate Peruvian farmer who is fighting back against the violent intimidation tactics and far-reaching devastation imposed by the largest gold producer in the world. MAXIMA gathered audience and critical praise (91% on Rotten Tomatoes) on the festival circuit and had its theatrical and VOD release in 2022. Claudia was a finalist for the 2022 Universal Writers Program and she is a proud 2023 Film Independent Fellow.