MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA
While planning a birthday party for her late aunt Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado, María José Maldonado revisits the past in order to celebrate and correct Bianca’s legacy as a transgender woman.

Format: Digital
Genre: short film, documentary, lgbtqia+​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Instagram @myfierceauntbianca

Co-director/Editor Latavia Young
Co-director Maria José Maldonaldo, Producers Latavia Young, Maria José Maldonaldo
Produced with support from BRIC
Screenings/Accolades:
Visual AIDS Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Festival
New York, NY
Flaunt: Being A Dream, Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Arts
New York, NY
BRIC Arts Media
New York, NY
Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
Toronto, Canada
June 3, 2023
World Premiere
Official Selection: Shorts: Sorrow and Joy
Warner Brothers New York Latino FIlm Festival
New York, NY United States
September 23, 2023
New York Premiere
Official Selection: Preceding Feature Documentary "Jeannette"
Stamped Film Festival
Pensacola Florida, United States
Florida Premiere
Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival
Philadelphia, United States
June 6, 2024
Pennsylvania Premiere
Los Shorts - We’re Here (LGBTQ+)
TRANSlations: Seattle Trans Film Festival
Seattle, United States
West Coast Premiere

Press:
GLAAD | Latine Cinema This Fall: New York Latino Film Festival, Cine Latino MSP Film Festival and more
MoMA | “My Friends Gave Me Their Love”: Remembering New York City’s AIDS Crisis Together
Pensacola News Journal | Pensacola Stamped film fest lets everyone experience and celebrate 'someone else's story
The Skinny | Gut Feelings: Reminders of Her
Visual AIDS | Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado: Iconic Transgender Starlet and My Fierce Aunt
Strange Field | MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA - María José Maldonado

BRIC Arts Media | BRIC Documentary Intensive Screening: 2022 Cohort
Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Arts | Flaunt: Being the Dream
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