Cristina Aurora Kotz Cornejo
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- Writer
Cristina Kotz Cornejo is a film/media maker working in fiction, documentary, and immersive media forms and holds an MFA in Film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, an MA in Arts Management from Antioch University, and a BA in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Cristina's short films have screened in festivals around the world including Palm Springs ShortFest, Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Festival of New Latin American Cinema in La Habana Cuba, Outfest Fusion, BAMCinematek, SIFF in Seattle, Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, Colombia, among others.
Cristina's immersive 360º personal documentary film, the root is more important than the flower, won Best VR Documentary at Cinequest Film & VR Festival in the US, and was exhibited at festivals/venues such as Maoriland Film Festival in New Zealand, ImagineNATIVE in Canada, among others. Her feature film debut, 3 Américas, premiered at Woodstock Film Festival, and streamed on Netflix. Her short film, Jewel and the Catch, about African American lesbian activist and entrepreneur, Jewel Thais-Williams, is included in OUTFEST's UCLA Legacy Project LGBTQ+ Collection.
Cristina's immersive 360º personal documentary film, the root is more important than the flower, won Best VR Documentary at Cinequest Film & VR Festival in the US, and was exhibited at festivals/venues such as Maoriland Film Festival in New Zealand, ImagineNATIVE in Canada, among others. Her feature film debut, 3 Américas, premiered at Woodstock Film Festival, and streamed on Netflix. Her short film, Jewel and the Catch, about African American lesbian activist and entrepreneur, Jewel Thais-Williams, is included in OUTFEST's UCLA Legacy Project LGBTQ+ Collection.
