Producer and Director
17min, in Spanish with English subtitles, Mexico, 2020. ON DEMAND at FilmInLatino
Teaching / Research / Advising
MacDowell Artist Residency, (Peterborough, NH) 2024
Headlands Center for the Arts, The Artist in Residence (AIR) Program (Sausalito, California), McLaughlin Foundation Award, 2023
ArtistsU and MassMoCa’s Assets for Artists (A4A) Fellow, 2022-2023
Project Evolution Grant, The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts,
ValleyCreates Program, 2023-2024
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
Rosenthal Examiner at Hampshire College / Amherst, MA, 2020-2021
Five College Artist in Residence / 2020-2022
Five Colleges Incorporated (FCI), Amherst, MA / South Hadley, MA
Filmmaking in the 21st Century: Visiting Professors Series / University of Massachusetts
Amherst / Spring, 2021 / Amherst, MA
Visiting Assistant Professor, Amherst College,
Art and the History of Art | Film and Media Studies / Spring 2021 / Amherst, MA
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
Un Agitado Viento / An Agitated Wind
(25min, Spanish and English subtitles, Mexico, 2024)
CANNES INDIE SHORTS AWARD, CANNES NEW WAVES ONLINE EVENT, Semifinalist, 2025
MASSACHUSETTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, OFFICIAL SELECTION, April 2025
Atlanta Movie Awards Festival, Semi-Finalist, March, 2025
Washington Film Awards, Spring Edition, Semi-Finalist, March, 2025
CHICAGO WOMEN FILM FESTIVAL, in association with the Chicago Women Film Institute, WINNER BEST INDEPENDENT FILM, April,2025
Hamburg Indie Film Festival, semi-finalist, March, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO ARTHOUSE SHORT FESTIVAL, WINNER, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN, February, 2025
VIENNA INDIE FILM FESTIVAL, BEST WOMEN EMPOWERING SHORT, March 2025
Florence Indi Film Festival, Semi-Finalist, March 2025
MADRID ART HOUSE Film Festival, WINNER, Best women’s issue short, February, 2025
STOCKHOLM SHORT Film Festival, WINNER, Best Women Issue Film, February, 2025
EASTHAMPTON FILM FESTIVAL, Easthampton, MA, USA, May 2025
SHORTS MEXICO International Shorts Film Festival, Mexico City, MX, 2024
FUTURE OF FILM AWARDS, Winner, Best Indie Short Film, July 2024
INDIANAPOLIS INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, WINNER Best Women Film , March, 2025
MEXICO CITY SHORTSFEST MIRADA CORTA, Mexico, Semi Finalist, 2025
BERLIN SHORTS AWARD, WINNER, BEST WOMEN EMPOWERMENT SHORT, March 2025
Kioto International Film Festival, Semi-Finalist, 2025
Nashville International Film Festival, Semi-Finalist, 2025
San Francisco Arthouse, Short Film Festival, Semi-Finalist, February, 2025
Austin International Art Festival, Semi-Finalist, February 2025
Palermo International Film Festival, Semi-Finalist, Winter, 2024
San Diego International Film Awards, Semi-Finalist, February,2025
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