Description: Kristal Sotomayor is a bilingual Latinx documentary filmmaker, festival programmer, and freelance journalist based in Philadelphia.
Filmmaker, Journalist & Curator
Kristal is in-production on Expanding Sanctuary and in-development on Alx Through The Labyrinth . Their work has been supported by the If/Then North Shorts Residency, MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute Visiting Fellowship, BAVC Serial Storytelling Lab, DCTV Docu Work-In-Progress Lab, Justice For My Sister Sci-Fi TV Screenwriting Lab, Good Pitch Local: Philadelphia Lab, Independence Public Media Foundation, and NeXtDoc Fellowship.
They are a festival programmer for SFFILM , True/False Film Fest , and Frameline . Formerly, served as the Programming Director of the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival and Awards Competition Manager for the IDA Documentary Awards . They have assisted with curation for the “Spotlight on Documentaries” at IFP Week, Philadelphia Film Festival, and POV | American Documentary. They received training from the Film Festival Alliance’s Film Festival Leadership Lab Fellowship.