Natural Encounters

Ana Andrade Transborder artist, thinker and researcher who lives between Tijuana and San Diego. Master in Fine Arts by the University of California in San Diego UCSD 2021. She was a member of the program Young Creators from the National Endowment of Art and Culture FONCA 2011-2012 and 2016-2017, and has received other grants. She has designed and led creativity programs in communities, museums and galleries. She has co-directed and produced short films and a feature documentary film. Her work has been presented and shown in Mexico, California, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Italy and Germany.

Carolina Montejo is a Colombian-American artist and filmmaker based in Southern California. She has a BA in Communications from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego. 

Using film & video, and installation, her works are concerned with feminist eco-pluralistic thought, as well as human, plant, and animal embodiment and interdependence. Montejo’s work outlines a framework of ethics, beauty and revolution that seeks to disrupt and question diverse systems of oppression, while also engaging with the aesthetic overlaps of analogue and digital imagery, as well as sound and performance art.

Her research and film narrative focus on ecofeminism, intersectional climate justice, ecocinema, and urban ecology. She is a member of Green New Deal at UCSD, currently teaches film studies at USD and is Creative Director at her new independent film production company, Telepathine Studio.