Raúl O. Paz Pastrana is a Mexican immigrant filmmaker, and cinematographer. His work intersects contemporary art, political documentary, and visual ethnography to explore themes of “belonging” and “alienation” in immigrant communities. His films have screened worldwide, including at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York City, and at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK. He is a 2018 Princess Grace Awards Special Project Grantee, an Art Matters/Jerome Foundation Cassis France Arts Fellow, a Tribeca Film Institute All Access grant recipient, a 2018 IFP Filmmaker Labs fellow, a 2018-20 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2020 New America National Fellow, and a 2018-19 Ford Foundation, JustFilms grantee.