I am a multifaceted Puerto Rican filmmaker. My works span multiple mediums such as: photography, art, writing and design. My creative approach is narrative technique. I explore female empowerment from psychology and experimentation. From experiences and community work I have developed positive and negative social stories. At an early age I had an interest in writing; I wrote children's stories, humanistic essays and social research. I learned everything about cinematography at the University of Sagrado Corazón in Santurce, Puerto Rico. I have shaped my work with personal projects and freelancing for independent production houses such as Young Collective and Ok Show Me. I am currently a production assistant on independent projects. In 2016 I worked as a graphic artist for school campuses. After Hurricane María that affected Puerto Rico in 2017, I began volunteering until 2019 for the Model United Nations and the UNICEF chapter, both at the University of Puerto Rico at the Río Piedras campus. From then on, my life has been a space of constant personal reflection. In the face of drastic changes, the chaos of adolescence and uncertainty, there has only been one thing that has never given way to life, my creative and imaginative sense.
Allowing myself to feel all my emotions, has led me to develop visceral stories. My versatility has led me to travel the world, exposing my work to projects of investigative and artistic quality. My imagination is what has allowed me to find magic when life has gotten a little difficult or boring. That's why I'm here for rebellious films, those whose scripts are a voice for certain people, those films that deliver a hit of “listen to me, look at me, investigate, this world is not what it seems…”. I became obsessed with the idea of creating emotional stories in which characters collapse from anger, sadness, love, tenderness, anxiety and collide with other worlds. I love sarcastic and ironic dialogues were the audience doesn't know what's at hand and they just have to enjoy the adventure. I understand that no matter the genre, it is possible to maneuver with the mind if a script breaks free from the canons and decides to open new creative portals. In 2022 I had the opportunity to give life to one of my scripts, Anemoia. It covers the story of Noa, a young man with a terminal illness who decides to fulfill all the wishes that at one point in his past he wrote on a list. In his process of resignation and liberation in the face of death, he lives the greatest adventure of his life. Directing this shortfilm was fun and terrifying because meeting my characters, watching them existing and talking to them felt very surreal for the simple fact that they came out of me. With this story comes a pack of memories and a very emotional encounter with life itself.
Just as I find myself with my stories, I hope that other people do so and together with me gain the courage to face their fears and can know the deepest parts of their hearts. That they embrace change, that they keep their doors open to new experiences but to have enough respect for themselves to recognize what they deserve and be able to close others; Let them write and rewrite their own stories. May they receive the vulnerability and allow it to be. That way it is possible to redefine love and find freedom. Perfection does not exist and the constant search for meaning is useless; We do not have to define life but rather let it transform us. Let there be no shame but the intention of getting closer to our most human aspect... or inhuman? That's cinema.
Remember, where dreams lie, magic lies.
-Alejandra González Cardona
