Carolina González Valencia’s film funding success highlighted in ‘Deadline’
News of Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture Carolina González Valencia’s&Բ; grant of $50,000 to finish her film How to Clean a House in Ten Easy Steps was covered in . The Sundance Institute funded 32 projects this year.
In August, Deadline covered Gonzalez Valencia’s&Բ;, which supports filmmakers in developing their pitches, and invites them to present their works in progress to a panel of funders and distributors at Camden International Film Festival. The film, which is being shot in the U.S., Colombia, and Mexico, is a “hybrid documentary” in which a domestic worker and her filmmaker daughter co-create the fictional character of a writer to uncover the slippage between truth and fantasy. It tells a story about immigration, labor, dreams, and the power of fiction to spark emancipation.
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Carolina González Valencia
Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture