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Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has been making documentary and experimental films for nearly two decades, starting with a 1999 experimental documentary about a blow-up doll (which screened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other venues). Her first feature-length film, Going on 13 (2009), covers four years in the lives of four adolescent girls; it premiered at Tribeca and was broadcast on PBS. She also produced and directed several short films, including El Corrido de Cecilia Rios(1999), which chronicles the violent death of 15-year-old Cecilia Rios and won the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Short Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It was also an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and broadcast on the Sundance Channel. Her feature, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013), traces the evolution and legacy of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. The film garnered numerous awards, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2013.