Cristina
Kotz Cornejo

Cristina Kotz Cornejo is a film/media maker working in fiction, documentary, and immersive media forms with an MFA in Film from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her work primarily explores the political and personal voices of the female outsider. 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, and the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá, Colombia. Her 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 Māoriland 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. Excerpts can be seen in the opening credit sequence of season 3 of Amazon’s series Transparent and in the documentary, Commitment to Life, the story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles. Cristina has received support from Film Independent’s Project/Involve, the MacDowell Colony, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cine Qua Non Lab, the LEF Foundation, and the Online News Association/Knight Foundation.