Pamela Martinez (she/her) is a Venezuelan filmmaker, UWC and NYU Abu Dhabi alumni, and MFA graduate in the Documentary Media Program at Stanford. In 2020 she was awarded NYUAD’s Summer Film Grant with which she developed her first short documentary Estado Fallido/Failed State (2021) which explores the political and social polarization inside the community of Canaima, Venezuela, where the indigenous community Pemón Kamarakoto attempts to live from tourism despite the deep-rooted socio-economic crisis of Venezuela. Among her most recent projects are As I Witness (2024), Naptime (2024), her undergraduate thesis project, Illegal Alien (2023), was a research-based art exhibition called Illegal Alien, which explores gendered migratory processes through the case of Venezuelan women migrants into the US.
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