Dolissa Medina
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Dolissa Medina is a Chicana filmmaker, writer, and multimedia artist originally from Brownsville, Texas. Her work deals with themes of queerness, history, memory, and place.
Life and career
She earned a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Visual Art from UC San Diego.
She is a founding member of the Caca Colectiva, a San Francisco-based film collective and found footage archive.
Medina is currently working on a feature-length personal documentary with the working title Small Town, Turn Away about her hometown of Brownsville, in the border region of Texas. In the film, she returns to Brownsville in search of information about her older cousin who died of AIDS in a meditation on home, colonization, and "temporal hauntings".
Medina has written for publications such as the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Release Print, and Frontera Magazine. Her writing has also appeared in anthologies including Generation Q: Inheriting Stonewall and Southwestern Women: New Voices.
She divides her time between Germany and the United States.
Filmography
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Awards
Medina was the recipient of a 1999 Film Arts Foundation STAND Grant for emerging filmmakers, and 2002 Film Arts Foundation Personal Works grant.
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