Bio
Jennifer A. Quintanilla (she/her) is a Salvadoran New York native who has worked with a range of arts nonprofits, events, festivals, and film-based organizations across the U.S. and Canada. What guides her is a passion for nurturing community connections, wellness and healing through arts engagement and cultural curation. Jennifer holds an M.A. in Film and Media Studies from Concordia University and an Arts in Medicine Certificate from the University of Florida.
She has programmed and curated for Breakthrough Film Festival (Toronto, ON), Bushwick Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Cinema Politica (Montreal, QC), and Lightbeam (New York, NY). In addition she has facilitated arts education programs for Jacob Burns Film Center, Directing Change, Art With Impact, and the Young Audiences Arts for Learning network.
As a Community Arts Producer, her research and producing work in community-wellbeing, narrative change and the storytelling industries have focused on how film and the media arts can nurture communities and serve as an outlet to unearth solutions about culturally responsive mental, emotional, social healing & well-being.
