On a final ride through her neighborhood, a college-bound Chicana reflects on past generations of women through the telling of the migration of monarch butterflies.
This short film will screen with other short films in Block 1 | Youth, Truth, and Resistance
Friday, December 9th at 12pm
Palm Springs Art Museum. Palm Springs, California.
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On a final ride through her neighborhood, a college-bound Chicana reflects on past generations of women through the telling of the migration of monarch butterflies.
Esmeralda Hernandez is an award winning independent filmmaker and artist, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. With her art, she highlights the voices and faces of underrepresented people. Her short films explore the American experience and other worlds, putting Latina protagonists at the forefront of the story. She graduated from the Radio-Television-Film program at The University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her thesis film Cake had a successful festival run playing at Cine Las Americas, South Texas International Film Festival, CineFestival, Hill Country Film Festival, Hollywood North Film Festival, and San Antonio Film Festival where she won the jury prize for Best College Filmmaker.
