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Synopsis
My Mud, My Hillside is a film about a Puerto Rican community engagement artist who spent ten years painting one mountainside village green. The film touches on themes life post-Maria, American colonialism, and the magic of community resilience.
Julia Mendoza Friedman is a filmmaker from Massachusetts, based in New York, and currently working out of Miami, FL (truly East Coast transient). This is her first documentary film, though her previous narrative work has screened at LA Femme Film Festival and Broad Humor Film Festival, and her photos have been published by the Pacifica Literary Review. She currently does story collection work for a national political agency about Latinxs who have been negatively affected by Trump.