The Sundance Kid

The Sundance Kid is my visceral meditation on the making of a true crime Latine filmmaker. Raised in Park City and shaped by trauma, my path is rooted in a decade spent behind the scenes of the Sundance Film Festival. Composed of raw, handheld B-roll captured entirely on iPhones across Park City and Los Angeles, the film functions as a cinematic unearthing of a history I previously buried for survival. This is the visual record of a novice filmmaker surviving without a support system while navigating high-trauma crime narratives.

Through an atmospheric lens, the film maps a trajectory of psychological survival and the reclamation of agency. I am making this art in an America where my existence as a Latine woman is a threat and where freedom of speech is increasingly precarious. This work stands as a defiant reclamation of the narratives that survivors are systematically forced to bury for survival.