Bios: Film & Activism
SPEAKERS:
Alexandra Codina's producing and directorial debut, Monica & David won Tribeca Film Festival’s Jury Award, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, broadcast on HBO and distributed in 33 countries. Her latest film, Paper Children took part in the Good Pitch, Sundance Knight Fellowship, Chicken & Egg Accelerator Lab, and recently released worldwide with YouTube Originals and it was an official selection at LALIFF.She has pitched her work at Tribeca All Access, IDFA, Hot Docs:Forum, CPH:Forum and Sheffield Film Festival.
Lissette Feliciano is a writer, director, producer and a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts. She is a Tribeca Film Institute AT&T Untold Stories grant recipient and was named as one of Shoot Magazine's new directors to watch. Her production company, Look at the Moon Pictures, develops original content that shines a hero's lens on underrepresented groups. She's the director of Women is Losers, the closing night film at this year's LALIFF.
Cristina Ibarra is a Chicana border crosser and a Sundance award-winning independent filmmaker. Her new film collaboration, The Infiltrators, received the NEXT Audience and Innovator Awards at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and it was an official selection at LALIFF. The New York Times calls her documentary, Las Marthas “a striking alternative portrait of border life.” It premiered on Independent Lens in 2014 and was awarded the Best USLatino Film by Cinema Tropical.
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who’s been telling ground-breaking Latino stories for more than twenty years. His first feature film, a cyberpunk thriller set in Tijuana, Mexico, Sleep Dealer, won multiple awards at Sundance and was screened around the world. Rivera’s second feature film, a documentary/scripted hybrid set in an immigrant detention center, The Infiltrators, won both the AudienceAward and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film was also an official selection of LALIFF.
MODERATOR:
Jesús Iñiguez (he/his) is an undocumented artivist and co-founder of UndocuMedia and DreamersAdrift.com. He immigrated from Mexico City in 1986 with his family. He graduated from CSULB in 2008 with a degree in Sociology and Chicano Latino Studies, with an emphasis on immigration. A musician, photographer, videographer, thinker and writer, and avid record collector.
