Building bridges based on the belief that film becomes art only when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil & paper. Cine Pobre Film Festival is the 100% cartel-free intersection of culture and capabilities.
currently a full-time Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute, Conservatory. She came from working as a full-time producer at Blue Chalk Media and is a graduate from the photography master’s program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, where her thesis film Tereza was awarded the 2017 Inaugural Audi Fellowship for Women. Her thesis film Tereza addresses issues of domestic violence and the courage needed to break abusive cycles. Natalie’s filmmaking approach is greatly influenced by her Mexican heritage and experiences growing up in a mobile home park with her young single mother.