EXCLUSIVE:UTAhas signed director-producer Cecilia Aldarondo, whose third feature,You Were My First Boyfriend, premiered in Documentary Feature Competition at theSXSWFilm Festival on Friday.
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The hybrid doc written and directed by Aldarondo and Sarah Enid Hagey is billed inSXSWs official programas an examination of the power of adolescent fantasy, the subtle violence of cultural assimilation, and the fun house mirror of times passage.
Aldarondo also produced the pic heading to HBO later this year, which sees her revisit her 1990s adolescence, a generation after she thought shed left it all behind.
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Aldarondo previously directed and produced the feature docsMemories of a Penitent HeartandLandfall, both of which were co-produced by the award-winning PBS series,POV.
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The former title world premiering at Tribeca picks up 25 years after Miguels death from AIDs, as his niece cracks open a Pandoras box of unresolved family drama, by tracking down his estranged lover.
The latter, also screening at Tribeca, which examined the fraught relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, won DOC NYCs Viewfinders Grand Jury Prize, also landing Aldarondo noms at the Cinema Eye Honors Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards.
A former Women at Sundance Fellow who was named to DOC NYCs 40 Under 40 list Aldarondo has also previously received a Guggenheim Fellowship and an IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award, among other accolades.
While continuing to build on her career behind the camera, she teaches filmmaking at Williams College in Williamstown, MA.
