Projects

Ray Santisteban has worked for the past twenty six years as a documentary filmmaker, teacher, and film curator. His work consistently gravitates toward political subjects and artist profiles, addressing the themes of justice, memory and political transformation. A graduate of NYU’s film and TV production program, he has explored a variety of subjects… Show more including New York Black Panther leader Dhoruba Bin Wahad - Passin’ It On (Co-Producer), the roots of Puerto Rican poetry, Nuyorican Poets Cafe (1994, Director, Producer, Editor), Chicano poetry, Voices From Texas(Directed, Producer) and was Senior Producer of Visiones: Latino Art and Culture in the U.S. a three hour PBS series nationally broadcast in Oct. 2004. Awards garnered include: a 1992 Student Academy Award (information division), a 1996 “Ideas In Action” Award from the National Tele-Media Alliance, a 1996 “Faculty of the Year” Award from the Chicano Studies Program, UW Madison, a 2016 San Antonio Artists Foundation Filmmaker Award, and a 2016 Tobin Award for Artistic Excellence. Since 1998, he has been based in San Antonio, Texas. Show less

For the past seven years, Cristina Ibarra has been making short fiction and non-fiction films that have been seen on public television, in galleries, museums, schools and film festivals across the United States including: the Guggenheim, Exit Art Gallery, the Queens Museum, Stanford and Brown Universities. Her award-winning directorial debut, Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela… Show more aired on the PBS series ColorVision. Her other films include: Grandma’s Hip-Hop, Lupe from the Block and Amnezac. She is currently developing her first feature film, Love & Monster Trucks. Show less

MARIANELA MALDONADO - a Graduate of the Nations Film and Television School in the UK, wrote and directed ‘The Look of Happiness’ and ‘Breaking Out’, two short films which premiered at Cannes Film Festival. As a screenwriter, Marianela has worked on various fiction and animation features and short films among them ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (Oscar winner 2008), Unmade Beds… Show more (Sundance, Berlin, Rotterdam 2009), The Flying Machine (Toronto & 3D Films Festival 2012/2013) and Magic Piano (New York Film Festival, 2011 and pre-selected for the Academy Awards in 2012). Thanks to her successful short films and her work as a screenwriter, she was selected for the prestigious Writing Residence at Cannes Film Festival. As documentary director, she has worked for BBC World, co-directed a documentary tv series Bio-patents and ancestral Knowledge for Latin American TV. Recently, she co-wrote the feature documentary ÒOnce upon time in Venezuela’ -selected in Sundance 2020. Marianela is now working on the postproduction of her documentary feature film The Children of Las Brisas, shot over the last ten years in a dangerous Venezuelan slum. Since she moved to California, she has been teaching Script Writing at CalArts, producing short documentaries for Univision, and establishing her production company Invento Films. Currently, she is developing a fictional TV series and her first feature film ‘The Belly of the Whale’ for the LA based company Godard Studio. Show less