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Mabel Valdiviezo

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  Mabel Valdiviezo is an award-winning filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and alumna of the Sundance Producers Conference who creates intimate and immersive works through film, mixed media, video, tech, and performance. Her work explores themes such as transnational migration, gender justice, decolonization, and indigenous spirituality. Mabel is the founder of Haiku Films, a media company based in San Francisco. She is the associate producer of the feature documentary Sands of Silence (2018), director/producer of Carlos Baron, Poeta Pan (2007), a documentary short for the PBS/KQED arts show, the editor of the feature documentaries Women With Altitude (2009) and River Webs (2007). Mabel is a winner of the Women in Film Emerging Filmmaker Award and her narrative film Soledad Is Gone Forever screened at LALIFF and New York International Latino Film Festival. Her script, Soledad’s Awakening was a finalist at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. With her documentary Prodigal Daughter, she has participated in the NALIP Latino Producers Academy, NALIP Media Market, and received the 2019 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Grant. Mabel recently directed and produced the multimedia dance performance Metamorphosis: Phase 1 via CounterPulse’s Combustible Arts-in-Residency. Her work has been featured on BBC Outlook, ABC7, Forbes, and HuffPost. Mabel is a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, and NALIP.