MATININÓ / hybrid documentary film
Matininó is a work-in-progress film that tells the story of the Villanueva-Rodriguez family, a multi-generational family of Puerto Rican women transforming their experience of misogyny and violence into a fantasy film about an island inhabited exclusively by women warriors.
Through re-imagining the hierarchical structures of power and the ways culture weaponizes gender, the family offers both a challenge to the current patriarchal landscape and an invitation to liberation through collective power and imagination.
The film is currently in production and is being supported by Topic and Studio IX.
roles: direction, production, post-production, distribution and impact
AWARDS
Sundance Institute, Documentary Fund Awardee
Firelight Media, Documentary Lab Fellow
IDA, Pare Lorentz Grantee
Chicken & Egg, Eggcelerator Lab Fellow
Working Films, Impact Kickstart Grantee
BAVC, Mediamaker Fellow
Film Independent, Documentary Lab Fellow
Points North, American Stories Fellow
Doc Society, Grantee
New Orleans South Pitch, Pitch Finalist
Studio IX, Mothers in Film Grantee
