Santuario
TFI Suppport
IF/Then Shorts 2017 New Orleans Film Festival
Logline
In Greensboro, NC, a small church community offers sanctuary to Juana Ortega, a Guatemalan grandmother threatened with deportation after 25 years of living and working in the United States.
Hamptons Film Festival - World Premiere
New Orleans Film Festival - Best Documentary Short
Christine Delp
Director, Producer
Christine is a documentary producer and director based in Durham, North Carolina. She is currently producing the documentary feature Burden of Proof, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker Cynthia Hill. Christine began working with Hill as an outreach coordinator for PRIVATE VIOLENCE (HBO) and has since worked as associate producer for Seasons 3-5 of Hill’s A CHEF'S LIFE (PBS) and ROAD TO RACE DAY (Verizon Go90/Complex Networks). Christine is also currently co-producing the documentary feature THE LAST PARTERA. Films produced by Christine have been supported by HBO, Sundance Documentary Film Program, IFP, Big Sky Pitch, and the Southern Documentary Fund. Christine is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Duke University, where she studied at the Center for Documentary Studies.
Pilar Timpane
Director, Producer, Editor
Pilar is a filmmaker based in Durham, NC. She was associate producer and editor of the award-winning oceanography documentary ATLANTIC CROSSING: A ROBOT'S DARING MISSION, which premiered at the Smithsonian’s Baird Auditorium in 2010 and was featured in a two-year exhibit in Sant Ocean Hall. ATLANTIC CROSSING also screened at festivals and aired on PBS stations around the country. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Economist, MSNBC.com, The Financial Times, and elsewhere. Pilar holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and a master’s degree from Duke Divinity School. In her master’s work, she focused on image studies and ethics through an interdisciplinary theology and arts approach. Her work has focused on Latin America, immigration, religion, and women’s stories. She is currently producing the documentary feature THE LAST PARTERA, which has been supported by Big Sky Pitch and the Southern Documentary Fund.