About

Priscilla Gonzalez Sainz is an award-winning Latinx filmmaker and educator based in Southern California. Her work explores personal narratives of transnational experiences, displacement, and identity, with the aim of uncovering barriers of perception through storytelling.

 Her directorial work (‘Room 140,’ ‘Status Pending,’ ‘Película de mi padre’) has been supported by Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult Film Fund, and NALIP, and has showcased around the world through film festivals, including AFI, Full Frame, Big Sky, and received multi-platform distribution.

 She has also contributed as a producer and editor on films including ‘Love in the Time of Migration’ (2024, Erin Semine Kökdil, Chelsea Abbas), ‘Expanding Sanctuary’ (2024, Kristal Sotomayor), ‘Aguilas’ (2021, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan) and ‘The Infiltrators’(2019, Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera.

 Priscilla was selected as one of five filmmakers to participate in Catapult Film Fund’s inaugural Research and Development Fellowship, where she worked on her current film, ‘Untitled Bobby Project.’

 Priscilla earned her MFA in Documentary from Stanford University and is an educator at Chapman University and UCLA Extension.