Alessandra Villaamil
Bio:
Alessandra Villaamil is a freelance documentary filmmaker. Currently, she is a video editor and designer at the Knight Center for International Media. Alessandra is an undergraduate student at the University of Miami graduating with a B.S. in Visual Journalism and a B.A. in Modern Languages with an emphasis on French Literature from the Maghreb in December 2010.
As a videographer and multimedia producer, she has worked on a variety of projects from green technology and sustainability in the Czech Republic to the plight of undocumented Haitian migrant women in the Dominican Republic to the celebration of the Special Olympics in Morocco. Alessandra has also worked on a variety of promotional videos for the National Park Service and the Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival.
Currently, she is working on “Meditations,” a multimedia website featuring profiles of various Haitian and Haitian American individuals who tell their stories, trials, and tribulations, including as a result, stories of the recent earthquake.
Her videos and photos have been featured in Grand Avenue News and Koze Ayiti (Conversations of Haiti).
Location:
Miami, FL
Films by this Filmmaker
 | Kotlaba; or the Modern Archimedes
5th place in Sustainability | 03:58
Josef Kotlaba is a micro hydropower operator in Horažďovice, Czech Republic. Inspired by his ancestor’s experience with waterwheels and his mathematic and hydraulic knowledge, he designed an affordable water turbine, which generates enough electricity for one large house. Today, in an environment of rising energy prices, Kotlaba is returning to the places where water works existed before the t. ... More |
 | 12 Cameras: Haitian Women Share their Lives
13th place in Empowerment | 04:51
There are an estimated 80,000 Haitian migrants, mostly women and mostly undocumented, living and working in the Dominican Republic. These women are easy targets for trafficking and exploitation. They face the constant fear of arbitrary deportation. Their Dominican-born children are denied citizenship, legal identity, valid passports and are largely denigrated by Dominican society. The Haitian migr
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