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Iliana Sosa

Iliana Sosa
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Academic, Director, Producer
Location
Austin
Languages
Spanish
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Biography

Iliana Sosa⠀is a documentary and narrative fiction filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. Iliana has directed short documentaries, fiction shorts and a narrative fiction feature, Detained In The Desert, which had its World Premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. In 2017, Firelight Media awarded her an Impact Producer Fellowship. In 2018, she was selected as a Berlinale Talent and co-directed a short documentary, An Uncertain Future, with Chelsea Hernandez. The short screened at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival and won a Jury Award for Best Texas Short. She was a 2018–2019 Sundance Institute Development Fellow with her first feature documentary, Lo que dejamos atras. The film has received additional support from the Ford Foundation and participated in the 2019 True/False Catapult Retreat and the 2020 IFP Documentary Lab. Iliana has also participated in the Logan Nonfiction Residency and the Jacob Burns Residency with the project. She is a current 2020 Women at Sundance Adobe Fellow. 

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Lo que dejamos atras
Logline: Ever since his children moved to the US, Julián has been making a monthly, 17-hour bus trip to see them. Julián, now 89 and unable to travel, builds a new house in hopes that it might bring his kids back home.
Status: Post-Production
Supported by: Sundance, Ford Foundaiton, El Paso Museum Cultural Affairs Department
Looking for finishing funds

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