LOVE YOU

In Love You (2021), a teenager tries to go back in time to save themself from making a fatal decision. The film explores depression and mental illness. Selected to be screened in the 2021 Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival. Trigger warning: depression, suicide

TROJAN

Trojan (2021), inspired by the poem of the same name by Ocean Vuong, centers on a young boy who dreams that he secretly tries on a dress. Euphoria and joy mingle with sadness when the boy awakens, believing he can never live out his dream in real life. Selected to be screened in the 2021 Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival.

LAUNDRY

In the comedic short Laundry (2021), a seemingly cheerful college student reveals that loneliness has driven them to talk to inanimate objects. Selected to be screened in the 2021 Harvard ARTS FIRST Festival.

Sincretismo

“When I was a little girl, I had dreams, like burning wires…”

Dolores Ratzan Pablo

Sincretismo (2018) explores the mingling of Maya religions with Catholicism in Guatemala, utilizing poetic imagery found in Antigua and Lake Atitlán. The voices of healer and spiritual guide Dolores Ratzan Pablo, and former guerrilla fighter and entrepreneur Willy Barreno, intertwine to create an evocative landscape in which the viewer experiences the birth of Maya deity Maximon, as well as Dolores' own spiritual initiation.

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This film was made as a project of Peace Works Travel Digital Storytelling Programs.

From AIDS to Advice: LGBTQ+ Seniors Tell Their Stories

From AIDS to Advice: LGBTQ+ Seniors Tell Their Stories (2018) is a short documentary that utilizes interviews from 10 senior citizens from Los Angeles to paint a landscape of the LGBTQ+ community then and now. Listen to first-hand accounts of coming out, discrimination, pivotal actions and achievements of the LGBTQ+ community, and how older generations hope to connect and pass on their history to younger generations.

From AIDS to Advice: LGBTQ+ Seniors Tell Their Stories has been screened for various audiences, such as the LA LGBT Center and student groups. Contact Oscar to request a screening.

Playas de Tijuana

In Playas de Tijuana (2017), Oscar explores a landscape of loss, yearning, and comfort while traveling to the Mexico/US border and narrating the experience through slam poetry. The film utilizes images from a religious service at the border and the recent border wall prototypes.

This film was made as a project of Peace Works Travel Digital Storytelling Programs.