DOCUMENTARY FILMS

The Mechanical Reproduction of Mexican Gray Wolves

Role: Director/Cinematographer/Editor

Logline: An evocative documentary that attempts to capture the portrait of Mexican gray wolves while considering its parallel stories.

autopista (in post-production) Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Cinematographer    

Logline: Families in the San Joaquin Valley, a place with one of the world’s worst air pollution caused by transportation, share their relationship with cars and thoughts about climate change.                                                                                                

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

$40 Billion (in post-production)  Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Animator/Cinematographer       

Logline: As the California wine industry adapts to climate change, farmworkers risk their lives to keep up with production.     

Language: Spanish with English subtitles                 

un barco para mi mamá (2022)  Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Animator/Cinematographer                                                      

Logline: This 16mm film captures a mother's profound love for her family, poignantly humanizing the challenges faced by migrants.                                                                                                   

Festivals/Awards: Santa Barbara International Film Festival, San Francisco Documentary Festival (played at the Roxie Theater for 2 nights), Female Eye Film Festival, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, Webby Honoree                                                                                     

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

The Voice of Lupe (2021) Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Cinematographer                                                                                  

Logline: With the walls as their canvas, Chicano muralists have been community storytellers for well over 60 years, and now, a ceramic mural continues that tradition to address racism and violence against women.                

Festival/Awards: Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, UC Davis Placemaking Minigrant, UC Davis Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship Grant

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Horsepower (2021)  Role: Director/Producer/Editor/Cinematographer

Logline: An experimental documentary that explores the physical work of domestic labor.   

Festival: Nahui Ollin Film Festival (Durango, MX)                                                                                                                                            

Language: English with Spanish subtitles

Manolito (2020) Animation  Role: Director/Animator/Editor                                                                                                                       

Logline: A boy gets a haircut from his big brother.                                                                                                                                                         

Festival: UC Davis Film Festival                                                                                                             

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