Maria Victoria Ponce

About

Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, Maria Victoria is a San Francisco Bay Area film director/writer who grew up in Richmond, California. She appreciates the complexity in the routine lives within poor and working-class neighborhoods, and themes of sexuality and coming of age tend to recur in her work. She is a NALIP LMM fellow, a Latino Screenwriting Project fellow, Cine Qua Non Lab fellow, and an artist resident at SFFILM FilmHouse. Her love of filmmaking and working with children came together to create, and teach an after-school filmmaking program at Grant Elementary in Richmond, California.

Maria wrote and directed the short film MAGO, an official selection of the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, HBO/New York Latino Film Festival, and Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival. She also directed and produced the documentary ENGAGE HER, interviewing civil rights leaders Dolores Huerta, Aileen Hernandez and Voto Latino founder María Teresa Kumar.