LARES FELICIANO is a queer, bi-racial Puerto Rican artist, filmmaker and writer living in The SF Bay Area. She just completed her M.F.A. in Cinema Production at San Francisco State University and has recently served as the Artist in Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. In 2007 she earned her B.A. in Film and American studies from Smith College. During her four years at Smith Feliciano fell in love with the Western genre and its complex history in American Cinema. At that same time she began to come into her own as queer filmmaker and activist, navigating the complexities of her identity and experience amongst the power and creativity that is filmmaking. It is her goal as a filmmaker to tell queer stories, untold stories, and to make space for communities often left out of main stream media. In her first project as an MFA student, PUSH ON, Feliciano re-imagines elements of the Western with queer characters. In 2009 Feliciano received a post-production grant for PUSH ON from Fotokem Labs, an award allotted every year to one MFA student who demonstrates promise and potential as a director.Currently in development are LAND: a feature narrative that takes place in the western landscape of the post-apocalyptic future and EL GRITO DE LARES: an animation that tells the story of the Puerto Rican revolution after which the filmmaker is named.
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