Maria Luisa Santos

A Latinx immigrant mother makes waves with a historic campaign to end the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with ICE.

A woman awaiting her US visa befriends a dog named Turbo. When it’s time to part, she says goodbye the only way she knows how—she makes a movie.

During the first human-driven mass extinction, a filmmaker drifts through churches, ancient DNA labs, and ghostly archives, searching for permanence. What lies beyond our replicas of the lost?

In a country with no numerical system for street addresses, a young woman explores the unique system that has taken hold, and the prospect of its rapid disappearance.

A live-in house maid struggles to make a difficult decision while trying to hide her distress from the girl she loves and cares for.

California highways become a portal for a recent immigrant, as she and her father share stories across distance, hoping to find or make home where they’ve ended up.

A Latinx immigrant mother makes waves with a historic campaign to end the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with ICE.

A woman awaiting her US visa befriends a dog named Turbo. When it’s time to part, she says goodbye the only way she knows how—she makes a movie.

During the first human-driven mass extinction, a filmmaker drifts through churches, ancient DNA labs, and ghostly archives, searching for permanence. What lies beyond our replicas of the lost?

In a country with no numerical system for street addresses, a young woman explores the unique system that has taken hold, and the prospect of its rapid disappearance.

A live-in house maid struggles to make a difficult decision while trying to hide her distress from the girl she loves and cares for.

California highways become a portal for a recent immigrant, as she and her father share stories across distance, hoping to find or make home where they’ve ended up.