8th Annual Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase

Filmmakers Persia Campbell Juarez and Alex Mastoon, Femme Frontera Director of Community Engagement Jackie Barragan, and Femme Frontera Artist Support Manager Ryan Rox IN PERSON for conversation after the screening.

Femme Frontera is a Latine-led film organization made up of, and founded by women and gender-expansive filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border regions of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, México. Our mission is to amplify films made by people with lived connections to and relationships with the experiences of women and gender-expansive people from border regions around the world and to amplify and celebrate these unique stories through showcasing work, funding projects, and providing film education.

The Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase began as a celebration of films made by women filmmakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region. Since then, we have expanded to include powerful short films from around the world, whose stories challenge perceptions about women, border communities, immigrants, people of color, the LBGTQ+ community, and other underrepresented communities.

CON VISTA AL RIO
The frustration of a rebellious border teenager will lead him and his younger sister to put themselves in grave danger, right along the wall that divides Mexico with the United States.
Narrative Short
Directed by Persia Campbell Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

BAILARINA
Alicia only recognizes herself through her reflection in the mirror and the notes playing from her music box. Meanwhile, Alzheimer’s consumes the rest of her existence.
Narrative Short Directed by Verónica Palofox Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico

AURORA AND THE HOUSE OF LIGHTS
Aurora is 25 years old. She plays frantically in an arcade in order to win a giant teddy bear. She can’t stop because that would bring her back to reality, to what happened the day before. If she wins the teddy bear, everything will be okay, she will heal and be safe. But denial is only the first stage.
Narrative Short
Directed by Ángela Matiz, María Matiz
Colombia

US IN OCTAVES
In a hyper color summer nightmare, two lovers are haunted by their last act of love: saying goodbye.
Us In Octaves is an official two part narrative music video for veteran producer Caural and told through an all Womxn & Non-Binary cast.
Music Video, Short Directed by Alex Mastoon
Rockaway Beach, NY

THE LITTLE DEATH
A woman finds her sexual awakening and her near demise in one fell swoop.
Narrative Short Directed by Autumn Palen
United States

THE WORDS IN-BETWEEN
The film explores the intersection of language, identity, and belonging among mixed race, indigenous and immigrant members of Gen Z, who talk about the pain of diaspora and assimilation, but also the power of language to connect them to home.
Documentary Short Directed by Katia Kalei Barricklow
United States

AS LEAVES IN THE WIND
A story of two transgender women who migrate from their home countries seeking asylum and opportunities in a new continent. Their lives go through structural changes when they meet and take part in a new support network. Made by them for them.
Documentary Short
Directed by Sofia Luz
Spain

Co-presented by RoxCine, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.