Maria De Jesus Mayo        Artist Bio
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Maria is a Chicana documentary filmmaker. She holds an MFA from University of California Santa Cruz and alumni of the Graduate Documentary Certificate Program at The New School where she released her first short, La Lupita, which premiered at 2019 Doc NYC Festival. Maria engages with film as a healing art form, where she upacks trauma, memory, and self-reflection.  Other works engage Indegenous geographies of health and healing and bruja feminism.  
simi (2023)
  •      This film traverses between resiliency, girlhood, and explores the complexity of parent- child relationships, and the quest towards radical healing from a 1st generation Latinx millennial perspective.





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Sin Gravedad/ Without Gravity (2022)

          A complex and meditative observational piece in hopes to convey the gravity and nebulous aspects of grief.
La Lupita (2019)

La Lupita is a short film shot on my mobile phone and Sony FS7 during a week long visit home to Southern California while living in New York during film school.  The film addresses the loss of belonging, confronting mother-daughter relationships, and resurfaced childhood wounds.  This piece aims to connect with those that remain bound by their own pain as sexual assault survivors.



Dear White Girl (2018)
          Documenting the 2018 Women’s March in New York, this candid piece points to entitlement, white fragility, and
    feminism from a brown girl’s perspective.