Consuelo Alba, Founder Watsonville Film Festival

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Mar 13, 2024 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Local, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Consuelo Alba, Founder Watsonville Film Festival

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It’s no small task to start something new and keep it going for 12 years. That’s the story for film maker and mover and shaker, Consuelo Alba. Seeing a lack of Latino/a representation in film, and especially film festivals, she decided to do something about it. Now in its 12th year, the festival has become the landmark event for Latine film makers from local and Bay Area cities.

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Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.