Niños de la Memoria

Producer/ Director María Teresa Rodríguez's work often centers on untold stories of Latinos in the Americas whose experiences reflect a larger sociopolitical reality. Her work includes Mirror Dance, which was broadcast on Independent Lens and received a LASA Award of Merit and a Cine Golden Eagle Award. María most recently worked with Vital Pictures and California Newsreel on the series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? which received a PBS national broadcast, a 2009 duPont Columbia Award in Television News and a 2009 Council on Foundations Henry Hampton Award. Other work includes From Here to There/De Aquí a Allá which won first place for short documentary at the XVII International Film Festival of Uruguay. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Leeway Transformation Award, which recognizes the work of women artists engaged in social change.

Producer Kathryn Smith Pyle was a fellow at the 2009 Sundance Institute Creative Producers Lab; former executive director of the Samuel S. Fels Fund; former associate director of The Philadelphia Foundation; former senior representative for the Central America and Mexico region and Representative for El Salvador at the Inter-American Foundation. Dr. Pyle has worked extensively with the Salvadoran transnational community in the U.S. and with grassroots organizations in El Salvador. She currently writes for The Foundation Center — primarily on film and media and the role of grantmakers in supporting the field — and consults on community development in Latin America.