Roberto Fatal [they/them/ellos] is a Meztize Chicana filmmaker and storyteller. They come from Rarámuri, Genízaro, and Spanish ancestry. Their Queer, gender fluid, Mestize/Mixed identity informs their genre films about humans sitting at the intersections of time, space and culture. Survival, intersectional identity, perseverance, love, empathy, community, connection and creation are at the heart of their characters and films. Fatal is a Sundance Film Institute Native Film Lab Fellow Alum and an Imagine Native Director's Lab feature film fellow alum.
Their short film, EN MEMORIA, screened in competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Shorts film program. Their debut feature script, ELECTRIC HOMIES, won the 2023 SF film Rainin Grant for screenwriting, was included in the 2023 GLAADxBlacklist and got them into the 2025 Sundance Screenwriter's lab. In 2026 Fatal was invited to the prestigious Sundance Film Institute Director's Lab with Electric Homies.
