Two-hour consultation with prolific filmmaker Kase Peña.
Kase is an award-winning New York City born filmmaker, a trans woman of color, the offspring of working-class Dominican parents. She is the first Trans Latinx Woman to join the WGA. A filmmaking Fellow of the inaugural Film Accelerator Program by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Kase is also a Ryan Murphy Half-Initiative Directing Fellow, a One-Fifty/Warner Media Writing/Directing Fellow, and a LALIFF/Netflix Directing Inclusion Fellow.
Kase is currently touring with her award-winning feature film TRANS LOS ANGELES, an independent feature that is an anthology of four shorts regarding different Trans experiences. On the heels of receiving accolades in Madrid, Spain, TRANS LOS ANGELES will soon have its US-premiere at the illustrious Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
Her docuseries VISIONS OF US, a four part mini-doc highlighting the history of Latinx LGBT representation on Film and TV for Netflix YouTube is the recipient of a Gold Anthem Webby Award. She also served as a consultant on Season Three of A Million Little Things on ABC Network. HBO has picked up distribution rights to two short films written and directed by Kase: FULL BEAT and TRABAJO.
Kase is an award-winning New York City born filmmaker, a trans woman of color, the offspring of working-class Dominican parents. She is the first Trans Latinx Woman to join the WGA. A filmmaking Fellow of the inaugural Film Accelerator Program by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Kase is also a Ryan Murphy Half-Initiative Directing Fellow, a One-Fifty/Warner Media Writing/Directing Fellow, and a LALIFF/Netflix Directing Inclusion Fellow.
Kase is currently touring with her award-winning feature film TRANS LOS ANGELES, an independent feature that is an anthology of four shorts regarding different Trans experiences. On the heels of receiving accolades in Madrid, Spain, TRANS LOS ANGELES will soon have its US-premiere at the illustrious Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
Her docuseries VISIONS OF US, a four part mini-doc highlighting the history of Latinx LGBT representation on Film and TV for Netflix YouTube is the recipient of a Gold Anthem Webby Award. She also served as a consultant on Season Three of A Million Little Things on ABC Network. HBO has picked up distribution rights to two short films written and directed by Kase: FULL BEAT and TRABAJO.