Flor de oro Tejada
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Bio
Flor de oro Tejada is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and creative producer based in the Bronx, New York. She’s produced branded content and short films for Condé Nast, Vox Creative, Tribeca Studios, FujiFilms, Pfizer, P&G and more. Flor graduated from the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television school at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and her films have screened at AFI FEST, Allied Media Conference, Camden International Film Festival, Seattle Trans Film Festival, Tribeca Festival, Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival, Afrikana Independent Film Festival, Odù Film Festival Brazil and more. Her film Bone Black: Midwives vs. the South won the Best Short Documentary award at Blackstar Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival in 2023. Flor is a Fellow to the 2023 Sundance Documentary Producers Lab.
Projects
Rubbish: The Queer Kingdom of Leilah Babirye
Rubbish: The Queer Kingdom of Leilah Babirye tells the story of a queer artist-activist from Uganda transforming discarded rubbish into visions of liberation. Outed in homophobic media amidst a climate of rising hateful legislation, she applied for asylum in New York City and began building the liberatory queer kingdom of her dreams.
Untitled Idlewild Project
Standing at the crossroads of Black history and Black futures, the residents of Idlewild, MI grapple with how to reshape the town from the Black vacation mecca it once was. Following an ensemble of characters over the course of two pivotal years, Untitled Idlewild Project searches for how Black communities might claim their own futures.
