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A Powerful Community of BIPOC Women and Nonbinary Professionals Transforming the Documentary Industry

Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM) works to disrupt inequity in the film industry by nurturing, amplifying, and investing in the creative capacity and professional success of our members.

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Animation & Graphics

Spotlighting the animators and motion graphics designers who bring documentaries to life with their stunning artistic abilities and creations.

Isela Ashburn Quijas

Isela (she/her) is a motion graphics designer with a background in filmmaking. Born in Guadalajara and raised SoCal, she found her niche after spearheading a visual doc research project changing how people in “ghettos” were perceived.

Lucía Castro

Lucía (she/her) is an illustrator and 2D animator based in Honduras. She's taught at UNITEC and has been featured in exhibitions in Honduras, Cuba, Germany, and Mexico. Adobe Latin America named her in the #CreativeWomenWednesday series.

Pamela Chavez

Pamela is an animator and illustrator. She wrote and directed of the animated short Caracol Cruzando, which screened at OIAF and more. She's currently developing new works animations on the experiences of Latinx, QPOC and communities of color.

Carrie Hawks

Carrie (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist working in animation, drawing, and more. Their art confronts assumptions about identity to promote healing, particularly in relation to Blackness, gender, and queer sexuality.

Sabina Shanti Kariat

Sabina (she/they) is an Indian-American animator, artist, and filmmaker based in San Francisco. Creating work for BIPOC-focused docs, she works as an animator and muralist, and also at ARTogether, an org uniting immigrants and refugees through art.

Deni Martha Lopez Dellamary Tello

Deni (she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist and animator from from Guadalajara exploring themes of nature, community, and the intersection of imagination and reality. They hold an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts.

Yasmin Mistry

Yasmin (she/her) is an Emmy-nominated artist who uses animation to explore complex human experiences and social themes. Her most recent animated documentary, For A Better Life, screened at 60+ festivals and was nominated for 40+ awards.

Leah Nichols

Leah (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker and 2D animator based in San Francisco and Seoul. She works to expand models of kinship, increase access to collective histories, and champion the compatibility of trauma and joy.

Flavia Romani

Flavia (she/her) is a Venezuelan motion/graphic designer and editor in Brooklyn. She's been on the editing and motion design teams of several feature documentaries, with additional experience in online media, event production, and podcasts.

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