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Monika Navarro
LOST SOULS Director/Producer/Co-writer

What keeps her motivated as an independent filmmaker:

I have a really supportive family and worked with an incredible team that believed in the film and wanted it to be successful. I had an obligation to my family, and mostly to myself, to see this project through and get it out to the world.

Her three favorite films:

Los Olvidados, Volver, and Raising Arizona.

Her advice for aspiring filmmakers:

Be passionate about your story, know that doubt is inevitable, and always get your releases signed! I think you really have to believe in your story, as there will be so many obstacles and setbacks. You have to have confidence that there will always be an audience for a well-told story.

Her most inspirational food for making independent film:

I could not have completed my film without coffee or good dark chocolate.

Filmmaker Bio

Monika Navarro
Director/Producer/Co-writer

LOST SOULS (ANIMAS PERDIDAS) is Monika Navarro’s first film, for which she won Best Director at the 2009 Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film Extravaganza. In 2005 Monika was the festival coordinator for the award-winning Cambridge, Massachusetts-based “Do It Your Damn Self!!” National Youth Video and Film Festival. She is a member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Women in Film and Video/New England, and a New England board member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. Monika received her BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University.

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