CALL 1-800-SALVI (2022) Runtime: 19 min
Logline: After moving to Toronto four months into pandemic lockdown, a queer Salvadoran-New Yorker desperately searches for queer Salvadoran friends by putting up signs around the city that beg: “CALL 1-800-SALVI"
Written, Directed & Produced by: María José Maldonado
Completed during the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) DIY Film Lab 2020-2021
"Soap, Water, Fingers, Dance" (2021) Runtime: 2 min
In “Soap, Water, Dance, Fingers,” I wash my hands for 20 seconds & then I dance with cleanliness, literally. Cleanliness here is personified here by the disembodied magenta rubber gloves. I wanted to make the constant ritual of hand washing fun, pleasurable and sexy. Written, filmed and edited in one day.
Written, Directed & Produced by: María José Maldonado
Made for Pubic Access TV based in Brooklyn, NY.
My Fierce Aunt Bianca (2023) Runtime: 10 min
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.
Film Festivals:
- Inside Out Toronto 2LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023
- New York Latino Film Festival 2023
- Stamped Film Festival 2023
- TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival 2024
- Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival 2024
- OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival 2024
- Reeling 2024: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
- San Francisco Transgender FIlm Festival
Screenings:
- Leslie-Lohman Museum Of Art, ‘Soft Spaces’ Exhibition, New York, NY, 2024 (currently on view through November 24)
- Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), ‘Flaunt: Being The Dream’ Exhition, Governor’s Island, NY, 2024
- Culture Lab LIC and Queens Rising, ‘Say it Loud: Unsung Heroes’ Exhibition, Queens, NY, 2024
Directed by: María José Maldonado, Latavia Young
Written by: María José Maldonado
Produced by: Latavia Young, María José Maldonado
Edited by: Latavia Young, María José Maldonado
Completed during the BRIC Documentary Intensive Film Lab 2022