Patricia Montoya is a Colombian American filmmaker who has created works produced on the US/Mexico border including her most recent film, Cuando La Rumorosa Calla (When La Rumorosa Quiets, 17min, Mexico 2020, In Spanish with English subtitles) which has won several awards and honorable mentions in Latin America, India, Europe, and the U.S.
Montoya draws on the impermanence of home, and her bi-national and queer experience to create films that tell stories of migration not only as an experience of displacement, but also of wisdom and resilience, through lyrical explorations of text, dialogue, theatrical adaptations, and the depiction of intimate human relations within the context of geographical landscapes.
At MacDowell, Montoya completed the first draft of the script for her feature length documentary, which will permit her move on to a polishing and further fundraising and development of the project.
Portrait courtesy of Hampshire College
