So cool! Luchadora will be screening at Riverside International Film Festival in Southern California. The screening will take place Friday May 6, 2016 along with some other great Washington State shorts! Find out more about the lineup and the festival here.

So exciting! Taking a flight this month on Alaska Airlines? Luchadora will air on the SIFF channel on Alaska Airlines on U.S. domestic flights. SIFF’s currently showcases 10 short films per calendar month from short films that have previously screened at SIFF.  I am excited this short doc will get to travel the country, in a…

So cool! Luchadora was screened at the Canadian Sport Film Festival’s satellite festival in Winnipeg. One of the highlights of the event is an outdoor screening hosted by at a prominent downtown historical site and recreational destination called The Forks. Every year, the staff at The Forks build a screen made out of snow and…

The Luchadoras are coming to Hotlanta! Funny story: a few months ago I got an email from filmmaker and fellow Hampshire College alum River Finlay. She wanted to let me know that she also had a short doc called Luchadora too, and it was currently touring festivals. ‘Well…we’d better be careful,’ I thought, because what…

I’m excited to announce that my short doc Luchadora will screen at Local Sightings Film Festival here in Seattle! Here’s more about the festival: Local Sightings is a showcase of new films from the Northwest that puts homegrown talent in front of Seattle audiences and connects artists from Alaska to Oregon in a celebration of…

Best of the Northwest 2, where my short doc Luchadora screened with other local shorts, was a full house: in fact, I was a few minutes early and still almost ended up not getting a seat! Luckily I was able to grab a seat in the very back, next to a guy with a computer.…

Hey, neat! Luchadora got a review (preview?) in the Seattle Weekly yesterday! The review definitely got the spirit of the film and it’s colorful language made me laugh: For those now also thoroughly bored with the roller derby and burlesque revivals, Amber Cortes’ doc Luchadora (Sun.) offers a refreshing alternative. Her subject is a circus-college-trained…

Cool! Luchadora will be screening at Bumbershoot’s 1 Reel Film Festival on September 6! I’m super-duper excited to be screening with some other shorts for their “Best of the Northwest” series. Check out the full lineup of 1 Reel’s films here. Luchadora even made the highlights in the Seattle Times! So, get your tickets – because…

So cool! SIFF is partnering with Starbucks to present seven short films in Starbucks Coffeehouses across the United States during the Seattle International Film Festival and Luchadora has been selected as one of them! Each selected short film will stream for 3-4 days on the Starbucks Digital Network, which is only accessible when you are on the wi-fi at any Starbucks location across…

Luchadora got a fun write up for COMMunity Beat, the University of Washington’s Department of Communication’s blog! It was great to get a chance to talk about the film, the amazing sport of Lucha Libre, and how the Communication Leadership program at UW helped me make my first short doc!