Cris Gris

Cris Gris is a Mexican filmmaker whose work has been featured in prestigious film festivals, including Berlinale, Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, and the Morelia International Film Festival, where her short film Alma y Paz won the Special Jury Award. Her short San Miguel received the Spike Lee Film Production Fund, a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellows Fund, and was named a 2019 National Board of Review student grant winner. Her music and art videos have received nominations from MTV LATAM for Video of the Year and have been published in magazines like Juxtapoz. As a Film Independent Project Involve 2020 and a 2021 Sundance Institute Screenwriter, Director Lab, and Women at Sundance Adobe Fellow, Cris continues to expand her creative horizons. She has recently directed three episodes of the first season of VGLY, an HBO Max comedy show on trap music released in 2023, which is the most successful HBO Max Mexican tv show to date. She then directed two episodes of the thriller/drama series, She Walks Alone, for the new streaming platform ViX, released in 2023. Additionally, she directed three episodes of Amazon's series adaptation of the best-selling Argentinian novel Cometierra (Eartheater), set to be released in June 2025. Cris is currently directing the second season of VGLY for HBO Max set to be released in 2025., and developing her feature film alongside producers Grabrielle Nadig and Lizzie Shapiro.