Cristina Kotz Cornejo on Clubhouse

Bio

Storyteller | Writer | Director @ Wild Wimmin Films & Professor, Department of Visual and Media Arts @ Emerson College 🇦🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 Huarpe descendant (Indigenous South America) enrolled member of Comunidad LOF Vicente Catrunao Pincen | she.hers.they

🎬 M.F.A. in Film/TV Production,
New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
🎞 M.A. Organizational Arts Management,
Antioch University
🌎 B.A. in International Relations, University of Southern California.

My debut fiction narrative feature film, “3 Américas,” received DVD distribution, streamed on Netflix and was represented by Cinetic Media’s, Film Buff.

My short films have screened at festivals around the world and my documentary short film, “Jewel and The Catch,” was selected by Outfest to be part of UCLA's Film and TV Archive. Excerpts can be seen in the opening credit sequence of season 3 of Joey Soloway’s Amazon series “Transparent” and Jeffrey Schwarz’ documentary, “Commitment to Life,” the story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles.

My VR/MR project, “Magic in the Desert” was awarded the 2020 Journalism360 Challenge Grant.

My 360° documentary, “the root is more important than the flower” is playing festivals around the 🌎

👉🏼 Film Independent Fellow
👉🏼 MacDowell Colony Fellow
👉🏼 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow
👉🏼 Cine Qua Non Screenwriting Fellow
👉🏼 LEF Foundation Pre-Production Grantee
👉🏼 LEF Foundation Production Grantee
👉🏼 Journalism360 Challenge Grantee
👉🏼 Knight Foundation Grantee
👉🏼 Sundance Independent Producers Conference
👉🏼 Warner Bros Pictures Post Production Award
👉🏼 American Spirit Award for Educating New Filmmakers from Caucus for Writers, Producers & Directors
👉🏼 Variety’s 2021 Educator of the Year

📖 Contributing author, “Filming Difference:
Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film”
(University of Texas Press)

📖 Author, “Paris is Back: Will the Indigenous People of Argentina Be Included in New Immersive Territories?” (AR/VR Journey Magazine)