Festival Jury
Catalina Santamaría
Catalina Santamaría is an independent filmmaker based in New York. Her work as a director, producer, photographer, and editor has earned awards world-wide. Select films include: Umbrella House, Luminiscencia, Excepto mi alma… and Derail. Her first feature, Squatters/Okupas, received the Best International Documentary Feature award at the Puerto Rico Film Festival and the Havana Star Prize - Special Jury Mention in Documentary - at the 2022 Havana Film Festival in New York.
Since 2015, Catalina has been a producer at CUNY TV, where she creates overall network strategy and plans content.
Michelle Leigh Farrell
Dr. Michelle Leigh Farrell is a Latin American Cinemas professor and Department chair at Fairfield University with a PhD from Georgetown University. In her research she focuses on contemporary Cuban and Venezuelan cinemas and their changing audiovisual landscapes through emerging voices with access to digital production and alternative distribution opportunities. Her articles and video essays can be found in Cuban Studies, Chasquí, The Latin Americanist, [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Studies and Tecmerin. In support of her on-going research, she has been awarded grants from the American Association of University Women, the Fairfield University Humanities Institute, and the American Philosophical Society. Inspired by the filmmakers she researches she is active in the New York and New England Latin American film communities serving as a juror for film festivals and annual awards.
Ivonne Cotorruelo
Ivonne Cotorruelo is a Cuban Film Curator and former producer, who has been empowering storytellers for over a decade. She is a Features Programmer at Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF), Miami International Film Festival (MIFF), Outfest LA, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF). She is a PhD student at the University of Connecticut in the Literatures, Cultures and Languages Department. In the past, she was a Shorts Programmer for Aspen ShortFest and Features Doc for Atlanta. She has served as Juror for Film Festivals around the globe, and as reviewer for The Chicken and Egg Fund, Warner Media New Voices Initiatives, Black and Latino Inclusion Fellowship in LA, and Disney. A Berlinale Talent Campus alumnus, she is always seeking out stories for underrepresented voices. Working on a plan of strategic diversity, equity and inclusion.
Contact:
Yale MacMillan Center Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies (CLAIS)
latin.america@yale.edu (203) 432-3420
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