Muchas gracias Lenfest Institute for selecting me as part of the Constellation News Leadership Initiative 2021-22 Class! 🎉It's such an honor to represent two publications, ¡Presente! Media Collective and cineSPEAK, that are changing the landscape of community media and journalism in Philadelphia! ✊🏾Learn more about the program: LENFESTINSTITUTE.org https://www.instagram.com/p/CUIWWSfraN2/
Category: Accolades
BAVC Serial Storytellers Scripted Series
Thank you BAVC for the opportunity to take part in the Serial Storytellers Scripted Series program! It was such a treat to have professional actors perform a table read of our scripts yesterday as part of our final class. 🎬 The program was taught by Evette Vargas and aims to support women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, queer, trans, non-binary, [...]
“Five LGBTQ Filmmakers Who Make Philly Proud” on CineSPEAK
Thank you Hansen Bursic for including me as part of the "Five LGBTQ Filmmakers Who Make Philly Proud" on CineSPEAK! "We are deep into Pride Month, and in Philly we have so much to celebrate. Philadelphia has a thriving and diverse LGBTQ community, and the city is a hotbed of queer and trans filmmaking. This [...]
Table Read for the Bay Area Video Coalition annual Serial Storytellers program
This summer, I've been working a TV pilot script as part of the Bay Area Video Coalition's annual Serial Storytellers program! 📝 Join our virtual Serial Storytellers program table read on Saturday, July 10 from 11AM-2PM PST! The program was taught by Evette Vargas and aims to support women, BIPOC, LGBTQI, queer, trans, non-binary, filmmakers with disabilities [...]
Awarded the Film Festival Leadership Lab Fellowship
The news is out: I'm a 2021 Film Festival Leadership Lab Fellow representing Philadelphia Latino Film Festival! Muchas gracias to the Film Festival Alliance and Full Spectrum Features for this incredible opportunity! Can't wait to learn, collaborate, and dream together. Congratulations to the rest of the cohort members as well! The Film Festival Leadership Lab [...]
We All Grow Latina Spotlight ‘5 Latinx Telling Their Stories Through Film’
Muchas gracias to the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival and We All Grow Latina for including me in this list of filmmakers changing the narrative! 👏 🎬 Join the Tenth Annual Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, and celebrate the richness and diversity of exemplary film work by extraordinary Latinx creatives 📽️. The Philadelphia Latino Film Festival honors [...]
Tri-Co Film Festival Co-Curator/Co-Juror
Thank you to the whole Tri-Co Film Festival Team for this incredible opportunity to co-curate/co-juror with my bestie Set Hernandez Rongkilyo! Muchas gracias to Sophia, Teddy, Julien, Bria, Allison, and Julia. Of course, thank you to the incredible filmmakers who produced and shared their work with us. Our curatorial process is fueled by your imagination, [...]
Starting ‘Cine alzando voz’ Film Column on cineSPEAK
I'm starting a film column on cineSPEAK called 'Cine alzando voz'! 🎬 Thank you so much Sarah Mueller (Executive Director) for the opportunity to write for the film journal and spotlight the incredible Latinx cinema premiering this year! While Latinx stories and characters in cinema continue to be depicted through racist stereotypes, we take a deep dive into the [...]
Awarded the NALAC 2021 Advocacy Fellowship
I'm a NALAC 2021 Advocacy Fellow representing Philadelphia Latina Film Festival! The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures announces this year’s cohort of artists and cultural workers participating in its annual Advocacy Leadership Institute (ALI). Since 2009, NALAC has traveled to Washington D.C. each year to advocate on behalf of artists and the nonprofit arts [...]
First Round Awardee of the ART IS ESSENTIAL Program
Expanding Sanctuary is a first round of awardee of the ART IS ESSENTIAL program run by the PHDC Public Art Committee and the Knight Foundation. ART IS ESSENTIAL: Philly Artists Connecting Communities is an initiative intended to put artists at the forefront of the conversation about the role of public art in communities. ART IS [...]
Kristal Sotomayor 