PAST FILMS
Co-Producer, MAQUILAPOLIS (2006, Funari, De La Torre) ITVS documentary, picked up by POV, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival
Carmen and Lorudes work at maquiladoras along Mexico's northern border, massive sweatshops often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. They try to balance the struggle for survival with their own radicalization.
Assistant Editor, Associate Producer - LIVE, NUDE, GIRLS, UNITE! (2000, Funari & Query) Won Best Bay Area documentary, SFFF 2001, premiered on Cinemax
"Live Nude Girls Unite!" is a fierce and funny first person documentary about a group of strippers who win the only union of exotic dancers in the United States. Stripper/Comedian Julia Query takes the audience on a turbulent journey beginning with her decision to leave graduate school and start stripping through the victory with the union, stopping along the way to tell her Jewish mother.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Executive Director, NOVAC March 2012 - December 2019 Co-Director, NOVAC December 2019 - Present
Responsible for organizational management, program supervision, development, strategic planning and growth planning for the oldest media arts non-profit in the South.
Co-Founder, All Y’all, the Southern Documentary Collective January 2016 - Present
In partnership with Academy Award nominated Elaine McMillion-Sheldon, a collective of working independent documentary filmmakers in the South who are seeking to ensure fidelity in quality and in regional representation in documentary film.
