Virtual Artist Talk: Gabriela Ortega

Thursday May 4, 6 pm CST

Gabriela Ortega is an award-winning writer/director and actor from the Dominican Republic. She is a USC graduate, a 2023 Sundance screenwriting fellow, a 2022 Sundance interdisciplinary fellow, and a 2022-2023 Academy of Motion Pictures fellow. Her short film Huella was an official selection of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and is being turned into a feature film. Her work lives within the intersection of fiction and poetry and aims to draw cultural bridges that lead to the Caribbean through intersectionality, duality, and ancestral memory.

Gabriela is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film; and won the NBC & Telemundo best director award at the 2022 LALIFF and “Best New Filmmaker'' at the annual NFMLA awards. Her latest film, Beautiful, FL will premiere on Disney+ in 2023, and her first film, “PAPI'' is available to stream on HBO and HBO Max.

Read more about Gabriela’s recent acting work in the NYTimes here, about her film Huella here, and visit her website here.