My Fierce Aunt Bianca (2023) Runtime: 10 min

Logline: While planning a birthday party for her late aunt Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado, María José Maldonado revisits the past in order to celebrate and correct Bianca’s legacy as a transgender woman.

Screenings:
Inside Out Toronto 2LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023
New York Latino Film Festival 2023
Stamped Film Festival 2023

Co-Directors: María José Maldonado, Latavia Young
Producers: María José Maldonado, Latavia Young
Written by: María José Maldonado

Completed during the BRIC Documentary Intensive Film Lab 2022

CALL 1-800-SALVI (2022) Runtime: 19 min

Logline: After moving to Toronto four months into pandemic lockdown, a queer Salvadoran-New Yorker desperately searches for queer Salvadoran friends by putting up signs around the city that beg: “CALL 1-800-SALVI"

Written, Directed & Produced by: María José Maldonado

Completed during the Toronto Queer Film Festival (TQFF) DIY Film Lab 2020-2021

"Soap, Water, Fingers, Dance" (2021) Runtime: 2 min

In “Soap, Water, Dance, Fingers,” I wash my hands for 20 seconds & then I dance with cleanliness, literally. Cleanliness here is personified here by the disembodied magenta rubber gloves. I wanted to make the constant ritual of hand washing fun, pleasurable and sexy. Written, filmed and edited in one day.

Written, Directed & Produced by: María José Maldonado

Made for Pubic Access TV based in Brooklyn, NY.