What We Do
Maria Torres
(She/ Her)
Editor, Freelance
Ridgewood, New York
United States
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Available for Freelance
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Venezuelan documentary editor and filmmaker based in New York City. My background in journalism and TV production have made me an interdisciplinary storyteller who is always eager to turn non-fiction stories worth telling into films worth watching.
About
Born-and-raised Venezuelan documentary editor and filmmaker with a background in journalism and TV production. After graduating from journalism school in Colombia and working as a content producer for an international news channel, she moved to the US to pursue her passion for documentary film. In 2017, Maria Gabriela graduated from The New School's Documentary Studies Program, and after honing in her editing skills at The Edit Center, she began working as Assistant Editor for Emmy-awarded films like True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (2019) and The Rescue (2021). Endless Calls for Fame (2024) is her first film as a solo editor.
Featured Work
The Librarians
In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.
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Endless Calls for Fame takes place in the gritty streets of New York City in the 1990s during a time when punk and indie rock was moving from the underground into the mainstream after the cultural tsunami of Nirvana. Using her rediscovered personal archival footage, director Olivia Serafini-Sauli shares the first-hand story of this unique musical era through the lens of one promising band's experience, The New Rising Sons. The film brings to life a vibrant New York music scene of the past as it follows the band’s brush with stardom, their dissolution, and their journey to redemption 20 years after they were formed.
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