Jessica Villamil

Movies

Prairie Flowers
Director of Photography
After Silvia’s femicide, Yecenia, her cousin, and one of the ñomndaa weavers from the Prairie of Flowers, create a ritual and poetic mourning alongside other weaving women. The ñomndaa women share ancient wisdom about their profession as weavers, rooted in breathtaking myths and the foremothers’ real life experiences. The elders decide that the only way to proceed is to look forward to the future, taking care of the young children left behind after their mother’s murder. Yecenia speaks through the radio, urging her local community to adopt new words, such as femicide, into their local tongue. Through this ritual, threads, dreams, and their craft are collectively woven together as an act of healing and resilience. In Prairie of Flowers, the act of weaving opens up to become an act of resistance in its own right.
Becoming
Director of Photography
Bryan, an eleven-year-old boy, dreams of meeting his father who left to the U.S. and never came back. While his mother works hard to pay for his education, he wants to drop out of school to become a cowboy just like the rest of the men in his family.
No Son Horas de Olvidar
Cinematography
Juana, Laura, Fahriye and Carlos use occupational therapy to elaborate fictional reconstructions of episodes of their lives in order to fight against their Alzheimer's disease.
Transversales
Director
During a journey that began long ago, Naomi looks after the ghost of a beloved one. At these roads she will have encounters with different characters that will share with her visions about the future and the hope a world that divides in the sadness of forced disappearense.