Credit: Chris Lafaro

Kari is a writer, interdisciplinary world builder, and curator of collective creativity. A 90s Queens kid from the Colombian corner of the spacetime continuum, they tend to place-based, genre bending story worlds where communities love up and fight forward. They are the co-editor of the anthology Latinas: Gender, Race & Class Vol. 2 and are currently directing Art of Purpose, a documentary about how NY organizers are integrating embodied purpose into their political practice.

Kari came into filmmaking as a youth producer with Global Action Project in 2004, where they grew into an educator, designing media programming with grassroots organizations and for public television. As an organizer, they have supported displacement, education, and community defense campaigns. From 2017 to 2022, Kari founded and operated macorina media: a small production company engaging artists with hyper-local to regional coalition work, including Just Transition, Cancel Rent, Amazon Out of Queens, DC Tenant Strike, emergency resilience planning, and alternatives to policing. 

Their short films and scripts have received notice from industry-recognized competitions & film festivals, including:  Launchpad Finalist (2021), ScriptPipeline TV Writing Contest (2021), Cinestory TV Writing - PMC Scholarship Winner (2022), Official Latino Film & Arts Festival (2020), Tides Film Festival (2020), Indie Short Fest (2020), Montreal Independent Film Festival (2020), Screen at Rooftop Films, Queens Drive-in Summer Series (2020) and Shore Scripts Short Film Fund (2021).

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