“Guadalupe Mountain”
EMILY RAY REESE
Coming-of-Age, Magical Realism
Forgotten in the midst of her parents’ crumbling marriage, Lola, a ten-year-old barrel racer, attempts to escape a sexual predator by harnessing a secret source of power within her.
Emily Ray Reese is a queer filmmaker from the mountains of New Mexico. Her filmmaking focuses on telling the often unseen stories of rural America, not depicted as the other but rather from an insider perspective. Her work comes from a deeply personal place, exploring queerness, socio-economic hardships, and New Mexican culture and communities. Visually, she works to create the whimsical magic she found as a child playing alone in the vast wilderness while also addressing the dark realities of poverty, addiction, abuse, betrayal, and death. Reese’s script participated in the 2012 IFP Emerging Narrative Lab and earned Reese the 2013 NYFA Geri Asher Screenwriting Fellowship. Recently, Reese received a 2020 fellowship from the Santa Clara University Center for the Arts and Humanities for her short film ¡Aguas! She is also a grant recipient of the 2020 Stowe Story Lab for her feature screenplay Not Your Hero.
