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Ninth Annual Festival

9:23 min
Documentary
Director: Angela Torres Camarena
Producer: Angela Torres Camarena

Winner of the Changemaker Award

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Angela Torres Camarena, Producer and Director

Producer/Director Angela Torres Camarena always believed in promoting social change through media. Since 2005 she has been making short films with strong social content while exploring topics related to independence, loneliness, freedom, culture characteristics, ambition, media imperialism, justice and family dynamics. Giving a voice to the voiceless has changed her life and given her a sense of “fulfillment.”
Angela is currently an MFA Candidate in the Film Production Program at the University of Texas - Austin and recipient of the E.D. Farmer Fellowship by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. She has also been awarded by CONARTE in Monterrey, Mexico with the Fund for the Artistic Professional Studies Abroad 2009.

In addition to Exiled in America, her other works include El Debut, a short film about a woman who’s dream of being on TV finally is going to come true in a very peculiar way,  Happy Birthday Austin, a short film that exploring the hidden lives of four fate-related characters in the quiet facade of their neighborhood, and The Language of the Wind, a short that criticizes the routine when it doesn’t allow people to see the beautiful and small things in life.
She is strongly committed to fostering meaningful works that transmit a clear message using the beautiful visual freedom of film.