Aurora Guerrero

Aurora Guerrero is a Chicana lesbian filmmaker known for Mosquita y Mari (2012), a tenderly observed coming-of-age film about two working-class Mexican-American girls in Huntington Park, California, whose friendship deepens into something more — one of the most quietly powerful films about queer Latina adolescence in American independent cinema. She has since directed episodes of television series including Greenleaf (2018) and Gentefied (2020), extending her distinctive voice for brown, working-class Chicano and Latina experience to television. Guerrero has spoken extensively about the importance of making films that reflect the reality of queer, brown, working-class lives that remain almost entirely absent from mainstream film and television.