An agitated wind

"Un agitado viento" combines live-action storytelling, puppetry, and stuffed animal toys in theatrical settings, along with bilingual dialogue, to present a series of poems by Chicana writer and cultural critic Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004).

The film depicts episodes of racial and gender-based violence experienced by a Chicano family in the US/Mexico border area of South Texas during the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of a young Chicana girl and narrated by a fictionalized Gloria Anzaldúa drafting the poems in Montpelier, Vermont, in the early 1980s.

Patricia Montoya, a Colombian American filmmaker, has received numerous competitive grants, fellowships, and artist residencies, including MacDowell (2024, Peterborough, NH); Headlands Center for the Arts and McLaughlin Foundation award (Sausalito, CA, 2023); Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, 2022); Massachusetts Cultural Council (2021); The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts’ Valley Creates Program and Project Evolution Grant in collaboration with MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists (2021-2024); and was an Artist in Residence at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center (Amherst, MA 2018-2022).

Patricia Montoya’s latest film, "When La Rumoros Quiets" (Mexico, 2020), has received several awards and honorable mentions across Latin America, India, Europe, and the United States.