Our programs offer emerging storytellers and filmmakers to tell their story…
The making and screenings of films hold a healing and creative space for fellows and their communities to cultivate deep connections, skills, conversations, and relationships.
The fellowships are incubators and accelerators for emerging storytellers and filmmakers to launch their long term substainable careers. A first well crafted short form project is often the first stage in unlocking a myriad of funds and opportunities. Our fellows are welcomed into a growing and vital creative community of established filmmakers and creatives.
Mamá Papaya values care, joy, community rooted processes, and long term communicative relationships with each other, the land, and spirit.
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Mama Papaya Community Annual Gathering 2023
Leadership
Nicole Donoso
Tahiel Jimenez Medina
Ryan Stopera
“My mama’s nickname was Papaya.
She migrated to the United States with nothing escaping violence and for most of her life, she did not receive the mentorship, care, and resources to condidently express her vibrant creative spirit to the world.
Mamá Papaya honors my mother’s dream and recognizes the need for everyone to have the skills, tools, and resources to tell their story.
If my mamá would tell her story, the world would be a safer and caring place for everyone.”
- Tahiel Jimenez Medina,
Founder + Director of Mamá Papaya
Founder + Director of Mamá Papaya