Teaching / Research / Advising
MacDowell Artist in Residency, Peterborough, NH, Summer 2024
Headlands Center for the Arts, The Artist in Residence (AIR) program, 2023
ArtistsU and MassMoCa’s Assets for Artists (A4A) Fellow, 2022-2023
Project Evolution Grant, The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts,
ValleyCreates Program, 2022
Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow, 2021-2022
Working Capital Grants Program Award, Fall 2021 / The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts’ Valley Creates Program in partnership with MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists,Fall 2021
Artist Fellowship in Film & Video from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2021-2022
May 24/2021
Mass Cultural Council - 2021 Artist Fellowship Award for Film & Video / May 24/2021
Rosenthal Examiner at Hampshire College / Amherst, MA, 2020-2021
Five College Artist in Residence / 2020-2021
Five Colleges Incorporated (FCI), Amherst, MA / South Hadley, MA
Filmmaking in the 21st Century: Visiting Professors Series / University of Massachusetts,
Amherst / Amherst, MA / Spring 2021
Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College
Art and the History of Art | Film and Media Studies / Amherst, MA / Spring 2021
Assistant Visiting Professor of Video and Film
Hampshire College, School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies, Amherst, MA / 2016-2020
Research Associate
Five College Women's Studies Research Center / Five College Incorporated,
Amherst, MA / 2017 - 2018 / 2018 - 2019 / 2019-2020
Screenwriting Summer Program Faculty Director
Hampshire College Summer Programs, 2017 / 2018
Artist in residency at Denniston Hill
Denniston Hill, Glen Wild, NY / Summer 2018
Faculty / Researcher Fellow
University of California, San Diego / 2007–2009
Visiting Faculty / Lecturer
University of California, San Diego / 2009–2016
• Department of Communication / Department of Visual Arts
Cuando La Rumorosa Calla / When La Rumorosa Quiets
(17min, Spanish with English subtitles, Mexico, 2020)
FilmInLatino
@cuandolarumorosacallatheshort
IMDb
IndieGogo
CADAVRE EXQUIS, Palermo, Italy, 2023
YOUR WAY FILM FESTIVAL, Official Selection, Paris, France, October 2022
SYDNEY AUSTRALIAN FILM FESTIVAL, Sydney, October 23, 2022
Honorable MentionBAJA CALIFORNIA EN SHORTS MEXICO—Cineteca Nacional Mexico City,
September 6, 2022KATRA LATINX / NEW FACES NEW VOICES / VIRTUAL FESTIVAL 2021,
Official Selection, September, 25-30NIGHT OF DRAMA SHORTS, Milano, Italy, February 2021, Honorable Mention
NEXT GENERATION INDIE FILM AWARDS, 2021
Finalist in the Best Short by a 50+ filmmaker & Adapted Screenwriting categories
Los Angeles, USA, August 2021 (Award Ceremony, October 2021)18TH IN THE PALACE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection, Best Fiction Film Category, Silver Princess Competition
Oscar Qualifying Festival, Bulgaria, February 27 - March 06, 2021NIGHT OF DRAMA SHORTS, Honorable Mention, Italy February 1, 2021
IV FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINA LA PICASA
Cinco Saltos, Provincia de Río Negro, Patagonia, Argentina
Official Selection, Category: Latin American Fiction, March 11-14 2021FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE QUETZAL, 4TA EDICION
Estado de Mexico, Mexico, Dicember 11-13, 2020
Nominated: Corto de Ficcion, Direccion, Sonorizacion, Actriz
Winner: Corto Voces Femeninas, January, 6, 2020QUEEN PALM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Forth Quarter, January 04,2021
Silver Winner for Best Sound Design—Tonalli MagañaQUEEN PALM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Forth Quarter
Crown Selection-Shorts, December, 2020FILMSTRIP INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, FIFF, SEVENTH EDITION, Iasi, Romania
WINNER OF BEST EXPERIMENTAL AWARD, November 2020SANFICI, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Santander, Colombia
Official Selection, November 2020
THE OUTGAZE FILM FESTIVAL, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 21-31, 2020
FILMSTRIP INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Rumania, October-November 2020
DONOSSKINO FESTIBAL, SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, DONOSTIA
Short Zinema, Official Selection, San Sebastian, Spain, October, 13-17 SHORT STORYLONG STORY SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Bucharest, Romania,
October 2020
SHORTS MÉXICO - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de México,
September 2 - 19, 202027TH VIRTUAL SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL (San Diego Latino Film Festival)
Frontera Filmmakers Narrative Shorts Showcase, September 21, 2020BRIDGE FEST, VANCOUVER 8/17/2020 – RUNNER UP for the August competition awards
UNION OF EXCELLENCE | UNOFEX, International Film Awards 2020
NOMINATED -- Best Short. August 2020HARLEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Official Selection, September, 10-13 Online
NYNEWFILMMAKERS, Anthology Film Archives, September 23, 2020, Finalist
EXPERIMENTAL FORUM, Honorable Mention, June 15, 2020
AVIFF CANNES ART FILM FESTIVAL 2020, FRANCE PREMIERE
AWARD: AVIFF PUBLIC VOTE, May 22, 2020, OnlineBUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Official Selection
INDEPENDENT SHORTS AWARDS FESTIVAL, Feb,19, 2020-08-3
Los Angeles-In Person7TH INTERNATIONAL NOIDA FILM FESTIVAL -2020 (Noida, India),
HONORABLE JURY MENTION, January, 25th 2020, In-Person
Publications And Interviews
SHORTS MEXICO International Shorts Film Festival, Mexico City, MX
Q/A Wednesday 9/9/2020VIVA LA L, New York, 8/30/20
DIANDRA REVIEWS IT ALL, New York, 8/3/2020
LINOTIPIA, Digital Magazine, Interview (Spanish) by Jacqueline Hernandez,
Tijuana, Baja California, MX 5/11/2020DIARIAS, a project by Mexican performance artist from Mexico, City, Lorena Wolfer
ivited by artist, poet and art critic, Sara Amy Caroll, PhD, Associate Professor of Literature and Writing, Literature Department at University of California, San Diego, 8/10/2020ASTERIX JOURNAL: Topping from the bottom: A CONVERSATION WITH KEGELS FOR HEGEL AND PATRICIA MONTOYA By Amy Sara Carroll, Arts, Interviews, 5/28/2018
ARTE DE VIVIR iconic and now defunct arts magazine, Arte de Vivir, edited by cultural promoter, writer, actor and LGBTQ activist, Max Mejia (RIP-2015). Max is a principal actor in my short SOMETIMES WALKING. SOMETIMES SITTING. ALWAYS CARRYING OUR OWN CHAIRS (Tijuana, Baja California, MX, 2007)
Production
• Cuando La Rumorosa Calla (When La Rumorosa Quiets)
(Mexico, 17 min, 2020)• Take Me to Yr Borderlands (Love Song to Gloria E. Anzaldúa),
Music Video, 2018• Interactive Media Certificate Program Portfolio (IMCP / 2016)
• North County LGBTQ Resource Center Promotional Video, 2014
• San Diego Youth Services, PEEP Promotional Video, 2014
• The Wellness Source, Promotional Video, 2014
• Poema en Canvas, One Day In San Diego, 4/26/2014
• San Diego Human Dignity Foundation Fundraising Video, 2013
• Terrazas Triptych 2009
• Medellin, como te convierto en un objeto? / Medellin, how can I turn you into an
object? (10 min. 2009)• Sometimes Walking. Sometimes Sitting. Always Carrying Our Own Chairs.
(15 min. 2007)• Candide (10 min. 2005--Remastered 2009)
• Paraguas / Umbrellas (20 min. 2004)
• El Culebrero, La Muerte de un Colombiano y el Acordeonista que no esta
(10 min. 1996)• A Ride Out / Una Vuelta (10 min. 1993
Exhibitions / Conferences [Selection]
• Latin American Studies Association, LASA, Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion, Boston, May, 24 2019 LASA Section Roundtable - Anzaldua and the Latinx World: 32 Years After "Borderlands" Sponsor: Latino Studies Session Organizer: Rebeca L Hey-Colon, Temple USA /
• El Mundo Zurdo: BORDERLANDS 1987 - 2018, Sponsored by The Society for the Study of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (SSGA) and Trinity University, May 2018
• Sometimes by Chance the Two Collide, Hampshire College Gallery, MA, 2017
• Crossing Paths Latina and Latin American Women Filmmakers in Los Angeles,
REDCAT, LA 2017
• Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, 2014
• CONTROverse: Contemporary Visions of the US-Mexico Border, Southwester
College, Chula Vista, CA, 2010
• Here Not There San Diego Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,
San Diego, CA 2010
• San Diego Latino Film Festival, San Diego, California 2010
• BorDocs Foro Documental Tijuana, Tijuana, MX 2009
• The 11th Annual Freewaves Festival of Experimental Media Art, 2008
• Cuarto Festival y Muestra Internacional de Cortometrajes, Tijuana, México, 2007
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY: Third World Newsreel at Thirty, 1998
• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY: Lesbian Genders, 1996
Degrees
• MFA Visual Arts / University of California, San Diego, 2007
• MA Media Studies / New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2004
• BA Liberal Arts / New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 2001
Training and Certificates
• Interactive Media Certificate Program (IMCP) / San Diego Continuing Education,
2015-2016
• College Counseling Certificate / UCSD Extension, 2016
• Film & Video Production Workshop / Third World Newsreel, New York, NY, 1993
Links
• El Mundo Zurdo: BORDERLANDS 1987 - 2018
• Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, Pacific Standard Time, LA/LA
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
• GLAMFA (Greater Los Angeles Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition)
• San Diego Latino Film Festival
• UCSD Department of Communication, Binacom
• UCSD Department of Visual Arts
• Downtown Community Television Center
• El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice