Victoria Linares Villegas
Victoria Linares, born in Santo Domingo in 1988, is a queer filmmaker based in the Dominican Republic. She studied film production at The New School. Her shorts have screened at New Orleans Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Shorts México and AMOR Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT+ which got her the Audience Award in 2019. Her latest short film My Mother Resents Me won an Honorable Mention at Milwaukee Underground Film Festival and Best Short Doc Jury Prize at Bushwick Film Festival (2019). Her debut non fiction film It Runs in the Family has been official selection at True/False, BFI Flare and BAFICI 2022, Fine Arts RD 2022, winning Best documentary film.
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It Runs in the Family
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Through a series of re-enactments starring her family and the filmmaker, Victoria Linares Villegas traces the forgotten life of her cousin, queer filmmaker and political activist Oscar Torres, blurring the lines between her reality and his.
It Runs in the Family
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Through a series of re-enactments starring her family and the filmmaker, Victoria Linares Villegas traces the forgotten life of her cousin, queer filmmaker and political activist Oscar Torres, blurring the lines between her reality and his.
