Gisela Rosario

About

Gisela Rosario Ramos studied Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Film and Media Studies, and, Fine Arts at Hunter College, NYC. Her first editing credit was as co-editor for ANOTHER BROTHER, a documentary by Tami Gold about Clarence Fitch, a Vietnam War veteran balancing his drug addiction and his commitment to the anti-war movement. This documentary received a CINE Golden Eagle Award, a Gold Hugo award at the Chicago International Film Festival, a World Gold Medal at The New York International Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on PBS as opening film for the “P.O.V.” series. Upon returning to Puerto Rico in 2002, she worked for various independent TV productions such as BORICUAS: ISLA, LOZA Y BARRIO; a weekly show that provided videocams to youth between the ages of 15 to 20 to film their lives for a week. In BORICUAS, her initial role as editor evolved into one of director. She also worked for LINEAS DE FUGA, a weekly youth-oriented magazine style show about arts and culture that was also nominated for the Excellence in PR Television Award. She later worked for GEOAMBIENTE, a weekly environmental show, winner of various EMMY (Suncoast Edition) awards and the Excellence in PR Television Award. In GEOAMBIENTE, she started as editor and later became director. Furthermore, she won a best editing award for the fiction film EL CLOWN at the Festival de Cine Latinoamericano in Providence, NY. Her social commitment always a driving force of her work, she edited DI PEREJIL, an hour-long documentary about Dominico-Haitian women struggling against discrimination along the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which was picked up for distribution by the National Film Network. 

In recent years, she has been writing fiction and her screenplay for the short film SABADO DE GLORIA won the first prize of the screenplay competition of CineFiesta 2011, an international short film festival in Puerto Rico. She also recently edited the short film MI SANTA MIRADA, the first Puerto Rican film to compete for the Palm D’Or in the short film section of Cannes Film Festival. In 2014, she directed the short documentary EL HIJO DE RUBY, which won best documentary in the Kerry Film Festival in Ireland and has been screened at various international film festivals, including the Habana Film Festival. Aside from her work in film, she has an alter ego named Macha Colón, who performs rock/pop music with her band Los Okapi in alternative venues in Puerto Rico. They released their first album in 2016 and last summer performed in NYC at the Loisaida Festival, La Marqueta Retoña in El Barrio and the New New Museum. Last year, she won DocTV in PR.