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Arts Division
Film and Digital Media Department
MFA Student
Social Documentation MFA
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Film and Digital Media
Jamilli Pacheco-Urquiza is a Mexican American filmmaker from Somerset, New Jersey. He graduated with a BA in Cinema Studies from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and was a Development Fellow at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Jamilli is currently an MFA candidate in the Social Documentation program at University of California, Santa Cruz. His thesis film will be focused on Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico and the development of tourism in the town. Jamilli hopes to stoke the flames in other young Latine artists knowing that there is more to us than what we are told we can be!
Documentary Film, Tourism Studies, Latine & Caribbean Studies, Decolonial Film, Essay Film, Queer Film & Studies, Mexican History, Transnationalism
Teaching Assistant Experience:
Introduction to Television Studies, Film20B
Indigenous California in Film and Media, Film80S
Introduction to Film Studies, Film20A
Chicana/o/x Cinema and Video, Film165E
History of Television, Film163B
Spring 2024; Kenneth Cordey GROW Award
Spring 2024; Florence French Fellowship
Fall 2023; Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas Research Grant
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