Awards & Grants
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC)
Disrupted Borders wins Adán Medrano Legacy Award: Film Chronicles a Young Mexican-American Female Inventor
Austin Film Society Announces the 2020 AFS Grant for Short Films Recipients
DISRUPTED BORDERS
El Paso
Documentary
Wendy (16), maker and aspiring engineer, tinkers using parts from discarded electronics to innovate 3D printed prostheses for her best friend Shelly (15), who has double limb deficiencies. This Mexican-American tech disruptor reinvents cultural and gender norms in a turbulent backdrop of the border, currently healing from a horrific racially-motivated domestic terrorist attack.
Austin Film Society Announces 2018 Grant Winners
JUANA DOE
Narrative Short in post-production
D: Ramon Villa
A forensic anthropologist discovers her supernatural abilities when working with unidentifiable skeletal remains of migrants.