Pura Sangre (2025) is a lyrical narrative honoring love as a haven forged within structural violence. Developed as part of my Master of Arts from New York University, the film uses silence, gesture, and poetry to reveal love’s expansive nature. I view filmmaking as a process of remembering—assembling fragments of lived and inherited experience to cultivate new pathways for belonging.
My creative practice reemerged in 2018, as I documented Afro-Indigenous oral histories in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María. That experience redefined my understanding of image-making as a form of reciprocity: cinema not as extraction, but communion. In all my work, I bridge community and art through an ethos of tenderness and radical imagination. Pura Sangre continues this effort, reminding us that love—in all its complexity—is a political act of liberation.
Pura Sangre has screened at 19 film festivals across North America, South America, Eurasia, and Africa.
+ Introductory Essay: Queer Cartographies
+ Film Review: A Love Letter to Letting Go
+ Deconstructing Pura Sangre
+ more soon!