LOS Cultural Producers Residency Program
Meet our 2024 Cultural Producers in residence
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Wilfredo is a proud queer, Latinx interdisciplinary artist, cultural producer and consultant. He is the founder and CEO of Communitas Arts & Culture, LLC (CAC), a lab for consulting and producing for social impact, and is the Founder & Executive Producing Director of the Drag Arts Oral History Project (DAOHP), a multimedia social impact project documenting the experiences, artistry, and needs of drag and queer performance artists in Philadelphia and beyond.
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Jennifer Mota is a Dominican-American multimedia journalist, music public scholar, multidisciplinary creative, and industry culture shifter. Mota first garnered media attention in 2019 with her article Recognizing Dominican Dembow: From Jamaica to El Alfa — the first investigated deep dive documenting Dominican dembow for U.S Latin mainstream media— highlighting the history and pioneers behind the sub-genre.
The PHLAFF 2024 Cultural Producer Residency Program aims to nurture creative talent, promote cultural diversity, encourage and drive for cross-sector impacts and foster meaningful connections between artists and their greater community. Through this comprehensive residency experience, participants will not only develop their creative projects but also contribute to the vibrant cultural landscape of Philadelphia while aligning with PHLAFF's mission of celebrating and elevating Latine/x/a/o culture.
What is the Cultural Producers Residency Program?
The PHLAFF Cultural Producer Residency Program is administered simultaneously with the Creative Fellowship Program (which is managed in collaboration with PhillyCAM) and aims to enhance the generative impact of the festival. The Cultural Producer Residency Program program functions as a platform for accomplished interdisciplinary and social impact producers to develop and showcase their creativity while contributing to the advancement of Latine/x/a/o arts, culture, and diasporic reflections in Philadelphia and beyond.
This 9-month residency (January-September) will support two selected Cultural Producers-in-Residence (CPIR) by offering an honorarium award of $10,000 each throughout the season, as well as administrative, professional development, and mentoring support. Participants will propose, lead the development, and create a minimum of two projects (to be defined in scope, scale, and impact with PHLAFF’s Director & Chief Curator), one of which must include a public activation/community engagement component. These projects will align with specific impact-focused outcomes that further the professional development of the cultural producer’s body of practice while also upholding and advancing the mission of the Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival.