Macorina Films is
part community media production house,
partnering with values-aligned organizations, agencies and businesses
on commissioned projects,
while nurturing a loose network of cultural workers
&
part commitment
to continue creating soulfully,
as guided by rebel memory and vision.
part community media production house,
partnering with values-aligned organizations, agencies and businesses
on commissioned projects,
while nurturing a loose network of cultural workers
&
part commitment
to continue creating soulfully,
as guided by rebel memory and vision.
karina hurtado-ocampo is a screenwriter, multimedia artist, and educator.
As a screenwriter,
her stories amplify Latinx communities resisting assimilation into the American dream
and siding with Black, Queer and Native America’s fight against the American nightmare.
Uplifting stories of community care to counteract the social wounding inflicted by policing narratives.
karina’s scripts have been selected as
Top 50 in Launch Pad's Pilot Competition,
quarterfinalist in the ScriptPipeline TV Writing Contest,
and finalist in Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition.
As an artist
she is committed to stories and creative processes that are
accountable to a larger organizing strategy,
nurtured in historical context,
watered by possibility
and playful with time
As an educator
she has supported organizations in building programs that
develop the collective and individual leadership of young people and
aligns their media with their
values,
capacity and
political strategy.
This has taken the shape of developing spaces where young people have the support to lead:
place-based community journalism programs,
coalition-based media productions,
intergenerational community media institutes and
productions for campaigns developed alongside organizers.
karina has worked in a leadership capacity, as a filmmaker and educator, at Global Action Project
and in New York City’s public television.
Currently she leads the Community Media programming at Movement Matters.
As a screenwriter,
her stories amplify Latinx communities resisting assimilation into the American dream
and siding with Black, Queer and Native America’s fight against the American nightmare.
Uplifting stories of community care to counteract the social wounding inflicted by policing narratives.
karina’s scripts have been selected as
Top 50 in Launch Pad's Pilot Competition,
quarterfinalist in the ScriptPipeline TV Writing Contest,
and finalist in Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Competition.
As an artist
she is committed to stories and creative processes that are
accountable to a larger organizing strategy,
nurtured in historical context,
watered by possibility
and playful with time
As an educator
she has supported organizations in building programs that
develop the collective and individual leadership of young people and
aligns their media with their
values,
capacity and
political strategy.
This has taken the shape of developing spaces where young people have the support to lead:
place-based community journalism programs,
coalition-based media productions,
intergenerational community media institutes and
productions for campaigns developed alongside organizers.
karina has worked in a leadership capacity, as a filmmaker and educator, at Global Action Project
and in New York City’s public television.
Currently she leads the Community Media programming at Movement Matters.
