Monica Sorelle

Monica Sorelle is a HaitianAmerican filmmaker and artist born based in Miami Her work explores alienation and displacement and preserves cultural traditions within Miami the Caribbean with a focus on the African Latin diasporas that reside there Monicas feature directorial debut Mountains world premiered at Tribeca Festival where it was awarded a Special Jury Mention in the US Narrative Feature competition It went on to have its international premiere at TIFF was awarded at the BlackStar Indie Memphis New Hampshire Film Festival and Charlotte Film Festivals and selected at festivals around the world including AFI Fest Mill Valley Film Festival and American Film FestivaI As a creative producer Monicas short films have won top prizes at Berlinale BlackStar and Miami Film Festival have been selected at Sundance New Orleans Film Festival and New DirectorsNew Films and acquired by Criterion Channel and Indiana University Black Film Center Archive Her photo and video work has been shown in group exhibitions at Oolite Arts Art and Culture CenterHollywood and on PAMM TV and supported by Pérez Art Museum Miamis Caribbean Cultural Institute Artist Fellowship Locust Projects Wavemaker Grant and MiamiDade County Department of Cultural Affairs In 2023 she received an Ellies Creator Award and was selected as a recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Monica is a member of Third Horizon a creative collective dedicated to developing producing exhibiting and distributing work which gives voice to stories of the Caribbean its diaspora and other marginalized underrepresented spaces in the Global South