3:30 PM
AMOR ETERNO
FilmSparks Community Screening
A special in-progress screening of 2024 FilmSparks Fellow Nia Navarro’s Amor Eterno short film.
Monse is the kind of person who keeps her feelings closely guarded but when her youngest brother, Felix, unexpectedly passes away her world crumbles. Amor Eterno is the tender story of two siblings who are separated by death, but bound together by their undying love.
FilmSparks is a year-long fellowship designed for emerging QTBIPOC filmmakers to develop, write, direct, and distribute a short narrative or experimental narrative film.
LOCATIONFilmSparks Community Screening
A special in-progress screening of 2024 FilmSparks Fellow Nia Navarro’s Amor Eterno short film.
Monse is the kind of person who keeps her feelings closely guarded but when her youngest brother, Felix, unexpectedly passes away her world crumbles. Amor Eterno is the tender story of two siblings who are separated by death, but bound together by their undying love.
FilmSparks is a year-long fellowship designed for emerging QTBIPOC filmmakers to develop, write, direct, and distribute a short narrative or experimental narrative film.
DRESS SHOP - SCREENING SPACE
Nia Navarro (she/they) was born in Morelos, Mexico and migrated to Minnesota in 2005. She is a grassroots community organizer, educator and documentary and narrative Director transmuting digital storytelling as a catalyst for healing and justice.
An alum of SPNN’s DocU Fellowship (2021), Spotlight Short Series (2022), New Angle Fellows (2023), Fresh Vantage Awardee (2024). She is a Firelight Media member, an inaugural fellow of Mama Papaya’s Film Sparks Fellowship and sole Minnesota member of UndocuFilmmakers Collective. Their work explores themes of personal identity, immigrant experience,cultural pride, grief and belonging.
She was featured in Sahan Journal and in Film North’s LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Newsletter edition as an independent filmmaker to watch.
An alum of SPNN’s DocU Fellowship (2021), Spotlight Short Series (2022), New Angle Fellows (2023), Fresh Vantage Awardee (2024). She is a Firelight Media member, an inaugural fellow of Mama Papaya’s Film Sparks Fellowship and sole Minnesota member of UndocuFilmmakers Collective. Their work explores themes of personal identity, immigrant experience,cultural pride, grief and belonging.
She was featured in Sahan Journal and in Film North’s LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Newsletter edition as an independent filmmaker to watch.
Mamá Papaya is an immigrant-led nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing and
Cultivating BIPOC LGBTQIA2S+ filmmakers and storytellers in Minnesota.
We are rooted in the values of solidarity, community, and care.
Our programs support and collaborate with emerging, aspiring, and established filmmakers, helping to launch and sustain long-term creative careers and practices in film. We believe storytelling is an ancestral tool for preservation and healing.
Whether it is on a film set or organizing an event, our priority is for participants and collaborators to feel safe, seen, nourished, connected with each other and their own selves.
Mamá Papaya is proud to co-present Cinefilmu Film Festival.
Cultivating BIPOC LGBTQIA2S+ filmmakers and storytellers in Minnesota.
We are rooted in the values of solidarity, community, and care.
Our programs support and collaborate with emerging, aspiring, and established filmmakers, helping to launch and sustain long-term creative careers and practices in film. We believe storytelling is an ancestral tool for preservation and healing.
Whether it is on a film set or organizing an event, our priority is for participants and collaborators to feel safe, seen, nourished, connected with each other and their own selves.
Mamá Papaya is proud to co-present Cinefilmu Film Festival.