Gabriella García-Pardo is a Colombian-American filmmaker whose work explores the relationship between land, identity, and belonging across the United States and Latin America. She produced and co-wrote La Bonga (premiered at True/False, 2023) and Backside (premiered at Tribeca, 2025), and she previously created short documentaries for National Geographic and filmed Tiny Desk Concerts at NPR. García-Pardo is currently directing FENCED, a darkly humorous documentary that uses fences as a lens to examine private property, American identity, and the human desire to control the world around us. Blending essay, playfulness, and observation, the project asks what happens when we take line-making too far.
Selected Work
- Backside (Tribeca, 2025): Backside is an exaltation of the migrant workers behind the Kentucky Derby, tenderly observing the relationships of care between the human and horse laborers.
- La Bonga (True/False, 2023): La Bonga is an independent co-production with an Afro-Colombian community, following them on a symbolic journey as they return to their village after two decades of displacement, seeking to reclaim their home and memories after fleeing a death threat.
- The Bardia (Mountainfilm, 2022): The Bardia is an independent short following Amal Ahamri's three year gap between competitions as a tbourida leader in Morocco.