Celebrating Cristina Ibarra’s MacArthur Fellowship🎉

 At Chicken & Egg Pictures, we congratulate 2021 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Cristina Ibarra on her 2021 MacArthur Fellowship. Cristina is an award-winning filmmaker with a 20-year storytelling practice rooted in her border-crossing homeland along the Texas-Mexico border. 

I grew up along the U.S.-Mexico border. This is a “third space” where you learn to live with contradictions. It is both English and Spanish, Indigenous and colonized, surreal and ordinary. Despite attempts to control them, the borderlands are porous and in a constant state of movement. In my films, I consider the border as more than geography; it is a perspective. I offer this way of seeing to any of us searching for a way to rebuild, reimagine, and update the narratives of our day. — Cristina Ibarra

Cristina, we admire and celebrate your creativity and perseverance! You are a true Genius!

Post by 2021 Communications Intern Mariana Sanson. 

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