Angela Torres Camarena

Angela is an award-winning writer and film director devoted to storytelling focused on social issues from a poetic perspective. Her work also explores neurological processes, perceptions, states of mind, memory, and feelings through the use of surrealism, magical realism, alternative narrative and literary techniques. Her films have been selected and screened at international film festivals around the globe including Cannes, Palm Springs, and SXSW. In 2009, Angela won the Changemaker Award by HBO for her film “Exiled in America”. Her narrative film “Frente Noreste” was distributed by PBS. She was a Warren Skaaren Presidential Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin and a FONCA Fellow by the National Commission of the Arts and Culture in Mexico. In 2018, she was invited to be a part of the SXSW Film Festival & Conference’s “90 Minute Film School” to give a talk about Directing Actors.

Angela is a faculty member at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television, teaching courses in directing and film production.