Hansel Porras Garcia (b. 1994) is a queer Cuban-born artist and filmmaker based in Miami. His feature film Febrero, funded by Oolite Arts, won the Knight Made in Miami Award at the 2023 Miami Film Festival. As a member of the Film Collective’s White Elephant Group Short Film Lab, he produced the short film 23 semanas, and as a founding fellow of the Third Horizon Forward Fellowship, he created Ana y la distancia. Hansel's short films have been featured at esteemed festivals worldwide, including the New Orleans Film Festival, Slamdance, and LALIFF.
In addition to filmmaking, he has a background as a film, theater, voice actor, and writer. In 2019, he wrote the theater play En una noche pirata cualquiera se tapa un ojo for Microteatro Miami, which became an audience favorite and went on to tour in New York and Tampa. That same year, he received the Cuentomanía Prize for his short story Funeral and was invited to the Miami Book Fair. His short stories have also been featured in various Spanish-language anthologies.
Hansel’s body of work is rooted in exploring Miami's Hispanic multiculturalism, focusing on the Cuban diaspora, weaving themes of identity, family, and migration into his storytelling.