DOCUMENTARY FILMS
THE CARP: Finding Beauty in Grief
DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECT
(U.S.)
An intimate love story exploring the search for inner peace
through trauma, illness, the threshold of transition
and the solace found in grief.
Written/Directed/Produced by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
GREEN SUPERHEROES 2030
DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECT
(U.S.)
A group of 10 young environmentalists changing the world for the better.
Their powers make the planet greener.
Written and Directed by Los Angeles Barea
Produced by Los Angeles Barea and Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
A SinAmor Films Production
MONTSE WATKINS: Kamakura Tales
DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECT
(Japan/Spain)
An unsung cultural and humanitarian bridge:
a daring young woman leaves Spain for Japan with only her voice and a pen.
Written and Directed by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
An initiative of Elena Gallego Andrada
PAUSED: Life Under Covid-19
Collective DOCUMENTARY PROJECT
(across continents)
A feature documentary and multimedia project that is a mosaic of global and personal experiences of the pandemic, created by an international collective of filmmakers who have come together to capture history as it unfolds.
Produced by Creative Compass Collective
SANDS OF SILENCE: Waves of Courage
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
(Mexico/Nepal/Spain/U.S.)
After a 15-year quest to expose the underworld of sex trafficking from Asia to the Americas, and inspired by the transformation of Mexican-American survivor Virginia Isaias whose life she follows, the filmmaker undertakes a soul-searching journey as she sets out to shatter the silence about sexual abuse in her own life.
Produced/Directed/Written by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
THROUGH THE WALL
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
(U.S./Mexico)
Each Sunday, a separated family engage in a bittersweet ritual at the U.S.-Mexico border. Here, they can be physically near, but they remain far from whole.
Directed by Tim Nackashi
Produced by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle and Tim Nackashi
An Intimate Look at Occupy L.A.
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
(U.S.)
Directed by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Produced by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle and Lorena Manriquez
For the Huffington Post
SOLD IN AMERICA:
A Modern-Day Tale of Sex-Slavery
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
(U.S.)
A glimpse into the world of sex trafficking in the United States through the stories of Mexican-American and Jewish women sold at an early age, whom we now meet as empowered survivors.
Directed by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Produced by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle and Cari Lutz
WISDOM IN SMOKE
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
(Cuba)
On the dying figure of Cuba’s tobacco factory reader
Co-directed by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Produced by EICTV
Social Impact Video Game Project
SOS_SLAVES
Changing the Trafficking Game
SOCIAL IMPACT VIDEO GAME PROJECT
(U.S./India)
PILOT ANIMATIC – EPISODE I
Produced/ Directed by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Coproduced with Codewalla.
Partial Funding by Latino Public Broadcasting
Presented at EE5 Entertainment Education Conference, New Delhi, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University