THE FILMMAKERS

The Last Conquistador

For the past seven years, Cristina 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 aired on the PBS series ColorVision.  Her other films include: GRANDMA’s HIP HOP, and LUPE FROM THE BLOCK and AMNEZAC, which can be seen online at www.fulana.org.  she is currently developing her first feature film, Love & Monster Trucks.

Cristina has produced films for the Zeum and the Heard Museum.  She worked with Gina Prince at the Sundance Institute’s Filmmakers Lab on LOVE AND BASKETBALL, with Griffin Dunne on PRACTICAL MAGIC, with the Pulitzer Prize winning Photo Journalist David Turnley, and Lourdes Portillo on SENORITA EXTRAVIATA.   Cristina is a Rockefeller Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, and a CPB/PBS Producers Academy Fellow.  She is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, a founding member of fulana, a Latina multi-media collaborative and SubCine, the first Latino self-distribution collective.