DIRECTORS

Jennica Carmona is a New York City based Puerto-Rican film maker and activist. Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico and raised in Rochester, NY she is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. From 2008-2009, Jennica worked with director Lee Daniels on the Academy Award winning film, ‘Precious”, where she gained hands on experience with filmmaking and production. She later went on to write, direct and produce her first feature film, “Mille and the Lords”. The film was the recipient of several film festival awards (Best Director, Newark International Film Festival, Best Director, The People’s Film Festival, and Excellence in Filmmaking Award, Rincon International Film Festival, as well as the Paul Robeson Award for Feature Narratives-Newark Black Film Festival) and it was sold to HBO/ Cinemax shortly after its release. Jennica recently completed the Third World Newsreel Fellows Progam and is in the final stages of post for her short film, 'The Corito Project", which explores the connection between music, faith, and activism within the Latin American Church and revolutionary movements. She currently heads the Documentary Department for the Atlanta Film Festival.