Cristina Kotz Cornejo - "3 Americas", Director/Writer/Editor

Cristina Kotz Cornejo was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  She received her M.F.A from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, an M.A in Organizational Management from Antioch College and her B.A. From the University of Southern California. 

While attending NYU, she developed her short film “The Appointment”(1999), which was awarded a Warner Brothers Picture Production Award, a Dean's Post Production Award, 3 NYU Craft Awards and was picked up for distribution by Urban Entertainment in Los Angeles.  Cristina was awarded an Independent Vision Grant in 1999 from the Independent Feature Project, to direct “Off to College I Go!”(1999), a 2 minute short which premiered at the Film Forum in NYC as part of the Classically Independent Film Festival.  In 2000, Cristina was chosen as one of four directors to receive a grant from the Partnership for a Drug Free America to direct “Ernesto”(2000).

“3 Americas” was a semi-finalist for the 2004 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab.  Cristina is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston.