Natalia Almada

Natalia Almada’s debut feature-length documentary, Al Otro Lado about immigration, drug trafficking and Corrido music was nationally broadcast on PBS’s award winning program P.O.V. in August 2006 and had a special week long engagement at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in March 2006. Al Otro Lado was nominated for a 2005 Gotham Award and was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, the New York Latino International Film Festival (Kodak Cultural Award), Cinefestival (best feature film), Morelia Film Festival (honorable mention for Best documentary), Puerto Rico International Film Festival (best documentary) and others. The film received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, Latino Public Broadcasting, the Tribeca All Access Program, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Arizona Humanities Council. Her experimental short, All Water Has A Perfect Memory, about a cross-cultural family remembering the loss of a child, was an official selection of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, and was awarded best short documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival and a gold plaque award at the Chicago International Film Festival. Natalia is a 2006 and 2007 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2006 Rockefeller grant nominee and a 2005 recipient of a Creative Capital Grant and a New York State Council for the Arts grant for El General. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 and works as a freelance editor.