Alba E. Garcia Rivas is an international award-winning Boricua filmmaker. Garcia Rivas brings a new, uplifting narrative by creating worlds inspired by her ancestors’ stories. She is currently writing her Taino inspired screenplay for a feature film. In 2018, the Puerto Rican filmmaker completed Dak’Toká Taíno (I am Taíno) with executive producer and daughter of Jim Henson, Heather B. Henson of Green Feather Foundation. García used puppets she designed and created for the film about the aftermath of hurricane María. It qualified and ran for an Oscar in 2019, and was shown at the Smithsonian Museum, the Museum of Moving Image-MOMI, the Newark Museum, and HBO Max. She finished her 4th stop-motion film, Dangerously Ever After, based on an award-winning picture book by Dashka Slater and illustrated by Valeria Docampo. The film was screened at the Museum of Moving Image.
