ROBERTO FATAL CV
Awards
Sundance Film Institute Indigenous Film development grant, 2024
SF Film Rainin Screenwriting Grant winner, 2024
Sacramento Film + Media Arts Grant, 2023
San Francisco Trans Film Fest Dream Comission Grant, 2023
Emerging Latinx Director Nominee, Outfest, 2023
Frameline Completition Fund Grant winner, 2023
Best feature screenplay, SF Indie Fest, 2023
GLAAD & The Black List, best screenplay list, 2022
Film Distribution Frameline Distribution, 2022 – 2024
Film Distribution by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center 2017-2026
Bushwick Film Festival, best screenplay, 2022
Chimera Project To.Get.Her Film finishing Grant, 2022
Sacramento Film + Media Arts grant, 2022
The Future of Film is Female Short Film Fund winner, 2022
Best Short Screenplay, Nevada City Film Festival, 2022
Best Short Screenplay, Atlanta LGBTQ Film Fest, 2022
Imagine Native / Netflix Director’s feature film Lab, 2021
Sundance Film Institute Indigenous Film Lab Fellowship 2020-2021
Inside Out Toronto LGBTQ Fest Post Production Grant, 2021
Inside Out Toronto LGBTQ Fest / Netflix Pitchfest pre-production grant, 2021
Filmography
EN MEMORIA [2024]
Short sci-fi drama
Co-writer and Co-producer [with Ali Meyers-Ohki], Director
Best screenplay, Bushwick Film Festival 2022; Best Short screenplay, Nevada City Film Festival 2022; Best short screenplay, Atlanta LGBTQ Festival 2022
Produced with grants from: City of Sacramento Film Grant, San Francisco Trans Film Festival Artist Grant,
Short sci-fi drama
Writer, Producer, director, editor Produced with grants from: the Sundance Film Institute Indigenous Film Lab, City of Sacramento Film Grant, Netflix/Inside Out Toronto Pitch competition, Chimera Project To.Get.Her Film finishing Grant, Frameline Completion Fund
Selected exhibitions: British Film Institute's Flare Festival, Frameline, OUTfest, Imagine Native, Newfest New York LGBTQ+ Film Fest Cinemas San Francisco Latino Film Festival, Gaze Dublin, Vancouver Queer FIlm festival, AGLIFF, SF Trans Film Festival, LA Skins Fest, Cinemama Reel Queer Oakland Pride 2023, Raza Cosmica Film Fest San Antonio, GuadaLAjara Film Festival, Mix Copenhagen LGBTQ Film Fest
Chaac and Yum [2022]
Short drama
Producer, director, editor Selected exhibitions: Outfest, Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto LGBTQ Festival, Imagine Native, OUTfest Fusion, Mix Copenhagen LGBTQ Film Festival, Wicked Queer Boston LGBTQ Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, Festival Mix: Cine y Diversidad Sexual/ Film & Sexual Diversity, Mexico City, Seattle Queer Film Festival, Q Fest Long Beach, Way out west Fest New Mexico,
Fluid Bound [2021]
Short film / experimental animation
Producer, director, editor
Selected exhibitions: Frameline, San Francisco, California, Inside Out Toronto LGBTQ Festival, Wicked Queer Boston LGBTQ Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, aGLIFF Austin LGBTQ Festival, BIRRARANGGA Indigenous Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia , Fringe! Queer Arts and Film Festival, London, Canada Image + Nation Montreal LGBTQ Festival, Montreal, Canada, Southern Exposure gallery, San Francisco, California
TechnoTihuacan [2018-2019]
Multimedia performance
Producer, director, editor, VJ, DJ
Selected exhibitions: OUTsider Festival, Austin, TX, National Queer Arts Festival San Francisco, SOMArts Cultural Center Dia de los Muertos exhibition, Antimatter Media Arts Festival, Victoria, B.C., Canada. Fringe! Queer Film Festival, London
Fluids [2017]
Short experimental documentary
Writer, producer, director, editor, cinematographer
Selected exhibitions: British Film Institute, London LGBTQ International Film Festival [Flare!], Rio Gender & Sexuality Film Festival, Rio de janerio, Brazil Vinokino Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival, Finland
Class Order Family Tribe [2016]
Short experimental documentary
Writer, producer, director, editor Selected Exhibitions: Fringe! Queer fim festival London, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California, Latino Center of Art & Culture Sacramento, CA, Galeria de la raza, San Francisco, First Nations Film Festival, Chicago, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, Cesar Chavez Gallery, San Francisco
