Cecilia Aldarondo is an award-winning documentary director-producer whose work has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, Field of Vision, IFP, the Jerome Foundation, and many others. Her feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart had its World Premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on POV in 2017.

Her most recent film is Landfall, which centers on the fallout of Hurricane Maria and the economic crisis in Puerto Rico. She is a 2017 Women at Sundance Fellow and was named by Filmmaker Magazine as one of 2015’s ’25 New Faces of Independent Film.’

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Films

Memories of a Penitent Heart
Picket Line
Landfall

Program Affiliations

Documentary Lab
OUR 100 DAYS
Impact Campaign Fund

Cohort Year

2015-2016 (Documentary Lab)
2017 (OUR 100 DAYS)
2020 (Impact Campaign Fund)

Websites

blackscracklefilms.com‍
‍penitentheart.com
landfallfilm.com

Instagram

@blackscrackle