Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Director/Producer, is a Latina filmmaker who has been making documentary and experimental films about gender, the Latinx community, and representation for over two decades. Her first feature-length film, GOING ON 13 (2009, co-directed with Dawn Valadez), covers four years in the lives of four adolescent girls and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES (2013) traces the evolution and legacy of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation and was broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens. Her short WHAT HAPPENED TO HER (2016) explores our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen. Guevara-Flanagan has won numerous accolades for her short film, ÁGUILAS (2021), which tells the story of a volunteer organization that searches for migrants who go missing while crossing the border between Mexico and the United States. ÁGUILAS won Best Short Documentary at SXSW and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. Her Sundance-supported feature documentary, BODY PARTS (2022), looks at the making of sex scenes in Hollywood, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and is streaming on Starz and the BBC.