Director/Producer
a feature documentary in development
a young woman’s return to an orphanage four years after she volunteered there, descends into a quest to uncover the truth behind the children she thought she knew.
Inspired by my personal experience of working in the non-profit sector across Nepal, this is a documentary that uncovers the reality of the 'orphanage industry,' a system that has trafficked children across the country into false orphanages as a money-making gambit.Through intimately shot home videos, personal interviews, and sweeping landscape shots of the Himalayas, this is a documentary that juxtaposes Nepal's raw beauty with a dark reality that haunts the nation's youngest and most vulnerable.Accolades
silent beauty
Associate Producer
When director Jasmin Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, she is flooded by painful memories of her own childhood sexual abuse at his hands—and the following 24 years of her silence. In this cinematically striking and poetic documentary, López bravely documents her story as a willful act to accept difficult truths while finding beauty in the process of healing. As she defies the cultural silence that pervades her family and confronts her abusive grandfather, a Baptist minister, a world of generational abuse unfolds before her eyes, and she quickly discovers she is not alone.
SCREENINGS
2022
Hot Docs Film Festival (World Premiere)
Galway Film Festival
BlackStar Film Festival (US Premiere)
Venice Film Week
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
OLA’s 19th Latino Film Festival
San Francisco Latino Film Festival
Portland Film Festival
Indie Memphis Film Festival
UrbanWorld Film Festival
DOCSMX Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival
SUPPORTED BY
Chicken & Egg Pictures
Black Public Media
Southern Documentary Fund
Sundance Institute
Tribeca Film Institute
International Documentary Association
Latino Public Broadcasting
ITVS
Firelight Media
Creative Capital