Cecilia Aldarondo's feature documentary MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART debuted at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on POV in 2017. She is a 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's ’25 New Faces of Independent Film’ in 2015. Her work has been supported by HBO, A&E Indie Films, the Sundance Institute, IFP, The MacDowell Colony, Jerome Foundation, and New York State Council for the Arts, among others. She is Assistant Professor of Film at Skidmore College.
UNTITLED PUERTO RICO DOCUMENTARY is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the aftermath of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.
Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo’s latest documentary explores the notion of “homecoming” – for anyone who survived high school.