Mulberry Tree
An experimental short film (8 minutes) directed by Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum portrays the poetic migration journey of a 100-year-old mulberry tree and a Caribbean woman across oceans to a metropolis where they connect to heal from postcolonial harm (2025).
Multilingual Memory Project / Proyecto de memoria multilingüe
An audiovisual digital oral-history project by filmmaker and professor Dr. Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum that films, archives, and engages with a virtual video repository of stories related to migration and languages in Latin America and the Latinx diaspora.
Twin Tongues / Lenguas gemelas
In an English-dominant world, can a pair of Latinx twins learn English without losing their Spanish? Twin Tongues/Lenguas gemelas interrogates the causes of language loss in diasporic communities. Shot in Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and Peru, the film wrestles with the choices that speakers make in relation to their languages today. Directed by Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum, produced by Franklin Guzmán Zamora, edited by Jose Quintana, with animation and art by Annais Delgado Sánchez (premiere expected at PHLAFF 2025).
Marcial
This reflective and humorous 12-minute nonfiction film explores the life and desires of Marcial, a Peruvian immigrant who washes dishes at Harvard University while he dreams of playing music in the Latin musical scene of Cambridge, Massachusetts (2001).
Virtual Parrandas
A yearly family project directed by Iliana Pagán Teitelbaum to maintain the Puerto Rican Parranda musical tradition in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic. The family production process is kept fun by being limited to what the parents, kids (and a quarantine puppy) can do in exactly 5 days by New Year’s Eve, since the year 2020