Alejandra Aragón
About
Alejandra Aragón (co-director) is from Ciudad Juárez, México and holds a degree in Visual Arts and Business from the UACJ. She was part of the Photography Production Seminar of the Image Center in México City in 2017. In 2018 she participated in several group exhibitions throughout Mexico, South and North America and Germany. Her documentary film Las Noches Invisibles was part of the Ambulante Film Festival in 2018. She was awarded the FONCA 2019 grant. Her work explores how the territory determines the experience and identities of the border regions from a trans-feminist de-colonial stance.
Disrupted Borders
Wendy (16), maker and aspiring engineer, tinkers using parts from discarded electronics to innovate 3D printed prostheses for her best friend Shelly (15), who has double limb deficiencies. This Mexican-American tech disruptor reinvents cultural and gender norms in a turbulent backdrop of the border, currently healing from a horrific racially-motivated domestic terrorist attack.