La Muneca Fea (The Ugly Doll)
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2009
Logline
A group of elderly sex workers in Mexico city seek peace and find community behind the walls of casa Xochiquetzal, a refuge established by one of their former colleagues.
George Reyes
Director, Producer
Born to Colombian immigrants, George Reyes graduated from Harvard University and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he directed and produced numerous award-winning short films. Reyes went on to serve as director of the Teen Media Program at the Cambridge Community Art Center and director of International Programs at the New York Film Academy, and he later taught in the Communications Department at the Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City. Most recently, Reyes has worked for the Sundance Film Festival, Outfest, and Sundance Institute in their International Feature Film Program. He is currently a 2009 Project Involve Film Independent Fellow.
Claudia Lopez
Director, Producer
A native of Mexico City, Claudia Lopez graduated from the Communications Department of Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Her first short film and graduation project Hora de muerte 8:36 premiered on Mexican Television’s Channel 11. Lopez has pursued post-graduate studies in Photographic Production and Theory, and has directed and produced videos and television commercials for clients such as Saatchi & Saatchi, SARE, Intel, Microsoft, Estudios Churubusco, Telmex and Telcel.
Nekisa Cooper
Producer
Nekisa Cooper is a producer whose latest documentary feature project, Eventual Salvation, is slated to air on the Sundance Channel, after having received the 2007 Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award and a 2007 Sundance Documentary Grant. Cooper was selected for the inaugural Sundance Producing Lab, and is a 2009 FIND Project Involve Fellow. She is currently developing the feature version of the award-winning short, Pariah.