A portrait of a woman in a desert in Texas smiling at the camera.
Alejandra Vasquez
Photo courtesy Alejandra Vasquez
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Alejandra Vasquez (she/her) is a Mexican-American filmmaker raised between rural Texas and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her award-winning films spotlight youth, art, and culture, and convey a cinematic sense of place in rural and borderland environments. Her feature directorial debut, co-directed with Sam Osborn, Going Varsity In Mariachi, premiered at Sundance 2023, won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the U.S. Documentary Competition, and is now streaming on Netflix.

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