Paloma Valenzuela is a Dominican-American writer, Director and actress originally from the city of Boston. She is the Creative Director of the production company La Gringa Loca Productions, LLC. She is the writer/producer/creator of the comedic web series "The Pineapple Diaries". In 2017 the show was featured in Latina Magazine's "5 Web Series Every Latinx Needs to Watch Right Now". Her work has participated as Official Selection at film festivals such as the New Orleans Film Festival and Miami Short Film Festival among others. In 2019 Paloma was featured in Boston Magazine's "Boston's New Creative Guard" and selected as one of the WBUR The Artery 25, a series highlighting millennials of color making an impact in the Boston arts scene. In 2019 Paloma won Best Supporting Actress at the Premios IRIS Dominicana Movie Awards for her role as Lolita in the film "Un 4to de Josue" which is streaming on HBO. Paloma has collaborated with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as a museum Neighborhood Salon Artist Luminary. She is the recipient of the 2016 Creative City Grant and in 2019 she was granted the City of Boston Artist Fellowship. In March 2020 Paloma finished editing and launching the third season of "The Pineapple Diaries". She is currently planning for future projects and also has been working as a teaching artist teaching screenwriting and productions for organizations such as GrubStreet in Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. She is currently directing a video series for the Gardner Museum called the "Luminary Lens Series". Starting January 2021, Paloma has joined the faculty at Brandeis University as Lecturer of English, teaching Screenwriting in the Creative Writing Department.

Episode Description: Here we explore a detailed storytelling journey into her path to becoming a Producer and Owner of La Gringa Loca Productions. Throughout the conversation we hope to give the listeners and viewers a take on highlighting Boston inner cities local talent and advocacy in film.

Themes:

• - Film making and women in productions
  
• - Diversity in the New England area, can we do better to support local talent?
  
• - Verbal paintings of the different vibrant boroughs where diversity is visible within the city of Boston such as Jamaica Plain
  
• - Rediscovering neighborhoods
  
• - Film industry in the Caribbean
  

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