A Distant Call
While on the phone with her mother, a young woman faces the cost of remembering her father after his death, a man who was never truly there.
Independent filmmaker, Hawthorne, CA
Character-driven stories about people with something to say and no way to say it. I go into their world and I stay there.
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While on the phone with her mother, a young woman faces the cost of remembering her father after his death, a man who was never truly there.
In the midst of a divided city, Little Liam celebrates his 6th birthday at a playground while his dad is forced to remove an Anti I.C.E. mural.
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Director · Writer
I am a 19 year old Mexican American writer and director from Hawthorne, California. I came up through Leuzinger High School's Multi Media Career Academy, where I first learned to see through a lens. Photography was the foundation, learning how light and framing could say what words could not.
Film came next, learned side by side with my childhood friend Nathan Torres. We grew up in the same neighborhood, shared the same stories, and eventually decided to put them on screen. Together we founded LadyBug Productions, and I am proud to be a cofounder. That bond is at the core of everything I make.
Today I spend most of my time at WLCAC (the Watts Labor Community Action Committee), sharpening my craft and finding my voice. Recent work includes A Distant Call, a short about grief and a daughter trying to hold on to a father who was never really there, and Little Liam, a story about a child's birthday unfolding into an unfortunate nightmare separating him from his father.
My work is rooted in the community I come from. I make films about the people and places that do not always make it to the screen, but should.
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