Natalia Almada

Recipient of the 2009 Sundance Documentary Directing Award for her film “El General,” Almada’s most recent film “El Velador” is a haunting look at violence through the eyes of the night watchman of Mexico’s most notorious narco-cemetery. Her previous credits include “All Water Has a Perfect Memory,” an experimental short film that received international recognition; “Al Otro Lado,” her award-winning debut feature documentary about immigration, drug trafficking and corrido music. Almada’s films have screened at The Sundance Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum and The Whitney Biennial. Her three feature documentaries broadcast on the award-winning series POV.
Almada is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2010 USA Artist Fellow. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and shares her time between Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York.