Gisela Rosario Ramos

Gisela Rosario Ramos studied Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Film and Media Studies, and, Fine Arts at Hunter College, NYC. Her first editing credit was as co-editor for Tami Gold’s Another Brother. She’s worked in numerous television productions in Puerto Rico as editor and director.

In recent years, she has been writing fiction and her screenplay for the short film Sábado de Gloria won the first prize of the screenplay competition of CineFiesta 2011. In 2014, she directed the short documentary El hijo de Ruby. In addition to her film work, she has an alter ego named Macha Colón, who performs rock/pop music with her band Los Okapi in alternative venues in Puerto Rico.