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About Carolina Kamanulele'okalani Espiro
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Carolina is a Chilean-American director whose work celebrates chasing passions and cross-cultural belonging. After earning a BFA in Theater from Chapman University, she built a 20-year career as an award-winning actor in television, film and commercials before pivoting to directing during the pandemic.
She was recently selected as one of eight women filmmakers to be a part of the American Film Institute Directing for Women Workshop (AFI DWW+) . A prestigious cohort boasting alumni such as Maya Angelou and Cicely Tyson. Through the program she will be directing her short PILINA, a senior "coming-of-age" comedy about a70 yr-old Chilean seamstress who discovers hula dancing—in finding her rhythm, she rediscovers joy, sisterhood, and the marital passion that was lost. Her narrative directorial debut, THE AVON LADY, a comedy inspired by her mother’s first job in the U.S., won 12 awards and received more than 25 nominations at festivals including Oscar®-qualifying LA Shorts, and premiered on Omeleto, where it has drawn nearly half a million views. She currently owns a winery with her husband which inspired her debut feature script “The Vintner,” a dark comedy set in a California vineyard. Her second feature, “Searching for Paz,” is an adoptive father/daughter road comedy set in Chile. A proud member of the Television Academy, Alliance of Women Directors, NALIP, Women in Film and SAG-AFTRA, Carolina continues to build momentum as a director committed to creating vivid, larger-than-life stories featuring life’s quiet protagonists.
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