Cristina Ibarra

Cristina Ibarra is a Sundance awardwinning filmmaker with a 20year practice rooted in her border crossing roots along the TexasMexico border The Infiltrators is a docuthriller about undocumented activists on a secret mission inside a detention center is currently being distributed by Oscilloscope It won the Audience and the Innovator Award in the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 among other notable festival awards The New York Times calls her previous awardwinning documentary Las Marthas about wealthy South Texas border debutantes who honor George Washington in Laredo Texas a striking alternative portrait of border life It premiered on PBSs Independent Lens in 2014 and is distributed by Women Make Movies The Last Conquistador a documentary about the racially conflicted construction of a monument to a conquistador in El Paso Texas was broadcast on POV in 2008 USA Today describes it as Heroic Her awardwinning directorial debut Dirty Laundry A Homemade Telenovela was broadcast on PBS in 2001 She is the recipient of fellowships from Soros Rauschenberg Rockefeller NYFA CPBPBS NALIP Firelight the Sundance Womens Initiative and Creative Capital among others