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 by leaning in curiosity and engaging in speculative community collaboration.  Other works engage Indigenous geographies of health and healing.  

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.  



Dear White Girl (2018)
          Documenting the 2017 Women’s March in New York City, this candid piece points to white fragility and
    feminism from a brown girl’s perspective.