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Lucila Moctezuma

Lucila Moctezuma is originally from Mexico City and lives in New York since 1996. She is Director of the Media Arts Fellow­ ships at the Tribeca Film Institute, a program that has supported media artists in the United States and Latin America and has been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation since 1988. Lucila has worked in New York's independent film community since 1996, including the Independent Feature Project (IFP) and the Latin American Video Archive (LAVA). She is on the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Film Seminar and on the Advisory Board for Rooftop Panorama, New Children/New York, Impacto Foundation and the Fórum Internacional de Cine de Monterrey. She has collaborated with several national and international film festivals, among them the Margaret Mead and the Media That Matters festivals in NY, and is the US Del­egate for the Huesca Film Festival in Spain. Lucila has worked in different areas of film and video production, including the PBS series The New Americans, produced by Kartemquin Films, and the series Shocking and Awful produced by Deep Dish, which was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Lucila studied Philosophy at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where she also taught from 1991 to 1995.