Artist Lab: Conversations Dalila Paola Mendez, Karla Legaspy and Aurora Guerrero.
Wednesday, July 8 2020
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Free | 18+
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Multifaceted artist, Dalila Paola Mendez, will be in conversation with Karla Legaspy and Aurora Guerrero to talk about filmmaking, coming out, and collaborations that bloomed at SHG. The program will stream live on Facebook and will be available afterward on our SHGTV YouTube Channel.
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About Artist Dalila Paola Mendez
Dalila Paola Mendez is a first-generation Indigenous queer Central American artist. Combining modern and ancestral narratives, she explores indigenous connections as a way to reinterpret and navigate issues confronting communities of color. Through painting, printmaking, photography, and murals she visually narrates stories of resilience, elders, LGBTQ, matriarchs, and our environment. Her work is influenced by her grandmother’s matriarchal line of wisdom and knowledge. She is currently working on a series of Huipiles (Woven Blouses) depicting different contemporary social justice narratives.
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About Artist Karla Legaspy
Karla Legaspy (she/her) is a MeXICANA Two Spirit migrant filmmaker known for her PBS audience award winning short “Gold Star”. Her film career started with a memorable performance in the Sundance selected film Pura Lengua, which followed with Karla acting, producing and now writing/directing her own content. Karla’s creative spectrum of work crosses borders, time and genres with themes on race, class, homelessness, sexual orientation, trauma, indigenous traditions and queer love. This summer Karla produced the acclaimed “Undocumented Tales season 3”. She is a two-time awardee of the Latino Public Broadcasting Public Media Content Fund and is Co- producer of the imagen award film “Amigas With Benefits”. Karla envisions her work as the best tool for activism and her contribution to empowering her communities. Her LPB film “The Daily War” is scheduled to shoot January 2020 along with a new short “Journey Through Mars” funded by Voices With Impact.
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About Artist Aurora Guerrero
Aurora Guerrero was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area to immigrant Mexican parents. Guerrero wrote and directed Mosquita y Mari, her debut narrative feature. Since premiering at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Mosquita y Mari has traveled over 100 film festivals including San Francisco International, Melbourne, Guadalajara, Sao Paulo, and has garnered multiple awards including Best First Feature at Outfest while picking up a Spirit Award and GLAAD nomination for Best Film under 500k. Mosquita y Mari was theatrically released in New York City where the New York Times praised an “an unassuming indie jewel.” Prior to making her feature, Guerrero directed award-winning short films, including Pura Lengua (2005 Sundance Film Festival) and Viernes Girl (winner HBO/NYLIFF competition). Los Valientes (The Brave Ones), slated to be Guerrero’s second feature, has received development support from Sundance, San Francisco Film Society, and Tribeca. In 2012 Guerrero was named a Time Warner/Sundance Storytelling Fellow.