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Kristy Guevara-Flanagan’s documentary and experimental films have screened at the Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and HotDocs film festivals and the Getty Museum.
Host Erin Prather Stafford and her guest Kristy Guevara-Flanagan chat about Guevara-Flanagan’s latest documentary “Body Parts”, women in film, and why media literacy is important for kids.
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television where she heads the MFA Directing Documentary concentration. Her most recent short film Águilas (co-directed with Maite Zubiaurre), about a group of volunteers who help recover bodies of missing migrants crossing the border, was short-listed for the 2022 Academy Awards.
Guevara-Flanagan has been making award-winning documentary films that focus on gender and representation for over two decades. Her debut feature “Going on 13” (co-directed with Dawn Valadez), covering four years in the lives of four adolescent girls, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS. Her follow-up feature, “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines”, traces the evolution of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. The film garnered numerous awards, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, and was broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens.
Guevara-Flanagan’s short, “What Happened to Her” explores our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen and premiered at Hot Docs, where it received an honorable mention for best short. Her latest film “Body Parts” traces the evolution of "sex" on-screen from a woman’s perspective, exposing the uncomfortable realities behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic scenes and celebrating the bold creators leading the way for change.
Find out more about Guevara-Flanagan’s films at chuparosafilms.com.
Host Erin Prather Stafford launched the website Girls That Create to support parents and caregivers of creative girls while encouraging more excellent female representation across the arts. Visit girlsthatcreate.com and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube.
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