Xochitl Gonzalez
Writer/Director
Xochitl Gonzalez received a MFA in Directing from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and
Television, where she was an Edie and Lew Wasserman Fellow, and is a recipient of the 2007
Emerging Latina Filmmaker Grant from Women in Film/General Motors. Her feature script, The
(Mostly) True Story of the Crazy, Fu@ked up Sh^t I Did at Uni High, was a finalist for Tribeca
All Access and was selected to participate in the 2008 FIND Screenwriters Lab. She has directed
many short films and documentaries, including two award-winning narrative shorts, Countdown
and Stuck, both shot on 35mm. Her films have screened on KCET's Fine Cut series and at film
festivals across the country, including Film Independent P:I Showcase, Newport Beach Film
Festival, San Diego Film Festival, Sidewalk Moving Pictures Film Festival and the LA
International Short Film Festival. She is currently editing a documentary, Sufrimiento Sin
Fronteras: The Bracero Program, that connects the recent debate about the guest work program
with the history of the Bracero Program where hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers were
recruited into a poverty army to provide cheap labor to the US. Besides The (Mostly) True Story
of the Crazy, Fu@ked up Sh^t I Did at Uni High, she has also completed a television pilot, The
V.A. Spa, both of which she hopes to direct. She is currently in post-production on a short
comedy she wrote and directed, Miracle.
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