Cecilia Aldarondo is a director-producer from the Puerto Rican diaspora who works at the intersection of poetics and politics. Her feature documentaries MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART (2016) and LANDFALL (2020) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and were co-produced by the PBS series POV. Her third feature YOU WERE MY FIRST BOYFRIEND had its World Premiere at the 2023 South by Southwest Film Festival and is now streaming on HBO. Among Aldarondo’s fellowships and honors are the 2024 Borderlands Visionary Fellowship, the Guggenheim, a three-time MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award, the New America Fellowship, and Women at Sundance. Her newest co-directed film DEAR MS: A REVOLUTION IN PRINT premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and is currently streaming on HBO Max. Cecilia teaches at Williams College and is in development on her debut fiction feature.