Paulina Suarez

Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Paulina Suárez is director of Ambulante, a non-profit organization that supports and promotes documentary cinema culture across Mexico. She oversees its film training program and its annual traveling festival, which screens nonfiction works at over 140 venues across Mexico. Suárez is committed to cinema’s vocation as a public art and to exploring its potential as a catalyst for social change, and undertakes research and writing focused on Mexican cinematic modernity, fictional and nonfictional melodramas, and expanded documentary cultures.