Cecilia Aldarondo, 11th Hour Fellow, is a documentary director-producer from the Puerto Rican diaspora who is making films at the intersection of poetics and politics. Her feature documentaries Memories of a Penitent Heart and Landfall were selected to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and air on the award-winning television series POV. Aldarondo’s films have been supported by ITVS, HBO, A&E, the Sundance Institute, Cinereach, Tribeca Film Institute, the Jerome Foundation, and many others. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow, two-time MacDowell Colony Fellow, and recipient of a 2019 Bogliasco Foundation Residency. In 2019 she was named to DOC NYC's 40 Under 40 list and is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film for 2015. She teaches at Williams College.
Selected Work
- “I Believe That Post-María Puerto Rico Functions Like a Handbook For Our Times”: An interview with Filmmaker Magazine about Landfall.
- 'Landfall': Film Review: A review of Landfall in the Hollywood Reporter.
- Disaster, Recovery, and Resistance: Cecilia Aldarondo on Landfall: An interview with the Museum of the Moving Image.
- Tribeca 2020 Review: A Place of Opportunity—Except for Its Citizens—is Brought to Light in Cecilia Aldarondo’s Stunning “Landfall”: A review of Landfall in Moveable Feast.
