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Katy Montoya

Katy Montoya

I am an independent filmmaker living in Mexico City and historian of modern Syria. I incorporate years of experience working in Lebanon and Jordan with women and refugees as well as my ethnographic research with Syrian filmmakers and organizers into my current work. Most recently, I return to their original community, my family in the Houston outskirts, to create an intimate cinematic portrait of downward mobility, the suburbs, and aspirationalism.