FILMMAKER: María José Maldonado
I’m an emerging filmmaker (documentary, experimental) & proud participant of BRIC Documentary Intensive Film Lab 2022 in Brooklyn, NY. I will be premiering my second docushort “MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA” (2022) which I wrote, directed & produced at BRIC. I am also a proud alum of Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) DIY Film Lab 2020-2021, instructed by Chanda Chevannes & Ryan Cooper.
UPCOMING SCREENING:
RSVP to the screening of “MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA” on THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2023 at BRIC in downtown Brooklyn, 7-9PM.
MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA (2023) Length: 10 mins.
Logline: While planning a birthday party for her late aunt Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado, María José Maldonado revisits the past in order to celebrate and correct Bianca’s legacy as a transgender woman.
It's never too late to honor the life and legacy of your [trans]cestors.
MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA (2023) Written, directed & produced by María José Maldonado. Story produced by Latavia Young.
CALL 1-800-SALVI (2021) length: 19 mins
“CALL 1-800-SALVI” is a docu-narrative short which follows me on my search for queer Salvadorian-Canadians living in Tkaronto (Toronto). I’m a New Yawker who relocated to Tkaronto in July 2020. As a queer Salvadorian-American, I set out to look for queer Salvadorian community in Tkaronto in the midst of a pandemic. I meet and instantly hit it off with two queer and leftist radical Salvadorian-Canadian artists, Irma Villafuerte & Jessica Zepeda aka SINVERGUENZILLA.
SHORTS
“SOAP, WATER, FINGERS, DANCE” (2021)
I shot, directed and edited this flirty, bubbly experimental short in one day. Music: “Dolphin-esque” from YouTube studio
Thank you, Alejandro (the dancing fuchsia hands) for always indulging, flirting, bathing in my imagination with me.