As unrest continues to boil over across Colombia, one determined woman has the courage to challenge an entrenched political establishment in the country’s biggest stage. Against all odds, Francia Márquez, a black, rural community activist has launched a presidential campaign hoping her uncompromising appeal for justice can inspire a country to dream again.
A Human Pictures film
A film about film, CINE HIDALGO, is an homage to Mexican cinema and culture. Through one family’s story of creating the first mobile cinema in Mexico to building the only permanent cinema for hundreds of miles, the film also offers commentary on the ways in which artistic expression is no longer a shared experience.
Festival Awards
Cine Pobre Film Festival
In the Cut Film Festival
New York Short Film Tuesday
London Seasonal Short Film Fest
The Upstate Film Festival
Mexico’s UVAQ International Short Film Festival
Docu Leon
Monterrey International Film Festival in Mexico
Kinam International Film Festival
MEXICO SHORTS
Puerto Rico Film Festival
Festival De Cine Latino Americano
Veracruz
Festival de Cine de Todos Santos
Buenos Aires International Film Festival
American Filmatic Arts Awards
As New York protests the death of George Floyd by day, Jose LaSalle spends his nights alone with his camera on a mission to make police afraid of being watched.
NY Short Film Festival
Documentary Feedback Film Festival
Indie Short Film Festival
Paris International Film Festival
Independent Shorts Awards
Despite controversies over border walls, separated families and the Muslim travel ban, immigrants are still striving for American citizenship. WE ARE WITNESSES: BECOMING AN AMERICAN tells their stories and the stories of those trying to help and hinder them.
Winner of the National Murrow Award for Feature Reporting
Client: The Marshall Project
Shot on film, edited on film. 16mm.
Music by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou mixed by me with recordings from the ocean.
Photos by Juliana Julieta
shot and edited 16mm film
music by jj cale
AWAKENING is a feature documentary that considers the re-possession of the narrative of black lives, in two locales—Buenaventura, Colombia and Ferguson, Missouri—via the application of a most powerful tool of representation: the camera.
A Human Pictures film
ExtremeLives meets all kinds of people at a crossroads in their lives: coming to terms with shifting social demands, and learning how to define themselves in an increasingly chaotic world. On topics like racism, extremism, and identity, our storytelling provokes conversation, initiates reflection, and resets social labels.
A Human Pictures project
Client: UNDP
Youth Correctional Leaders for Justice unites current and former youth correctional administrators to build a national movement, one that aims to shift systems away from the use of punitive sanctions and incarceration and focus instead on a more youth-, family-, and community-oriented vision of youth justice.
To inspire a new generation of activists to organize for systemic change, this documentary illustrates the ways in which collective action can combat racial capitalism. Few have heard of Fred Ross Sr but this quiet organizer, trained Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and was a foundational figure in the United Farm Workers.
Script writer for a short video on cross cultural solidarity in the farmworkers rights movement.
Client: See Us Unite / The May 19th Project
Nominated for a Webby
Founded at Sing Sing in 1996, RTA works with professional teaching artists to lead year-round workshops in theatre, dance, music, creative writing, and visual arts. The RTA model provides an intensive, comprehensive arts program that builds critical life skills so that people can meet the challenges of connecting with family and community when released.
A Human Pictures project
Client: Rehabilitation through the Arts
America’s in-between spaces and people. In progress
