Disrupted Borders
TFI Suppport
IF/Then Shorts 2019 New Orleans Film Festival
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Wendy (16), maker and aspiring engineer, tinkers using parts from discarded electronics to innovate 3D printed prostheses for her best friend Shelly (15), who has double limb deficiencies. This Mexican-American tech disruptor reinvents cultural and gender norms in a turbulent backdrop of the border, currently healing from a horrific racially-motivated domestic terrorist attack.
Alejandra Aragón
Co-Director
Alejandra Aragón (co-director) is from Ciudad Juárez, México and holds a degree in Visual Arts and Business from the UACJ. She was part of the Photography Production Seminar of the Image Center in México City in 2017. In 2018 she participated in several group exhibitions throughout Mexico, South and North America and Germany. Her documentary film Las Noches Invisibles was part of the Ambulante Film Festival in 2018. She was awarded the FONCA 2019 grant. Her work explores how the territory determines the experience and identities of the border regions from a trans-feminist de-colonial stance.
Cathy Chen
Co-Director
Cathy Chen (co-director) is the co-founder and director of Fab Lab, a digital design and fabrication learning hub. She advocates for socialization and democratization of technology through grassroots initiatives in education, creative economies, and social innovation. She holds a Bachelors in Literature and Critical Theory from Duke University and a Masters in Media Design from Keio University in Japan. She received the 2019 Innovation Award from The Hub of Human Innovation and 2016 Chevron Educator Award. Cathy serves on the Public Arts Committee for the City of El Paso and on the advisory board for El Paso Museum of Art.
Ramón Villa- Hernández
Producer
Ramón (producer) has produced/directed short films for web-series; Only in El Paso, part of PBS Digital Studios and local PBS affiliate KCOS-13. His films explore topics such as identity, cultura, and the paranormal. In 2016, he started teaching digital media production at the University of Texas at El Paso. Local arts organization, MCAD, has awarded Ramón funds to offer filmmaking workshops in low-income housing communities. In 2018, MCAD awarded his short film; Juana Doe, production funds and the Austin Film Society awarded it post-production funds.