Margot Flores Torre is an independent filmmaker and coordinator from Mexico City who now lives in tio’tia:ke (Montréal), Canada. She is a founding member of a feminist audiovisual collective called “Punto Ciego Films¨ that works addressing social justice issues, love, healing, decoloniality and self-and collective-empowerment.

 

She obtained her degree in cinematography with a specialization in editing and was recognized as “Artist of the Month” by the "Novangardo Foundation" in 2015. Since then, she has worked making documentaries and fiction that deal with topics such as: gender, reappropriation of territory, dynamics in public space, the urban gentrification process, social exclusion, drug use, stigmatization, sex work and climate change.

 

She has worked with Cooperatives (Coop Collective Vision & Hive Café Coop), Collectives (Las Lobas  - Los  fusilados, Jacarandas Boreales & Viumasters), Non-Profit Organizations ( Rock Camp Montreal - Studio Re-Imagine - Head & Hands - CUTV Concordia - Theatre NDG - Centro Cultural Circo Volador - Alimento Para Todos - Crea tu Mundo ), Institutes (Mosaic Institute - INJUVE), Company (VICE Media) Universities (Concordia), Independent Artists (Kama La Mackerel, Kathleen Vaughan, Liz Singh, Lara Sofía, Andrea Salmerón Sanginés, Emma Sofía Peraza Sanginés, Diego Cristian Saldaña, Oscar Mena, Nat Montell, Diego Lomelín, Sofía Castillo, Paulina Ortega & Alejandro Iglesias Mendizábal) and as a Chef (Hive Free Lunch Program).