Valeria Contreras is an award-winning filmmaker from the U.S.-Mexico Border. She is a Producers Guild of America Create Fellow, Film Independent Fiction Producing Lab Fellow and Cine Qua Non Fellow. Her short film Not My Name won the Focus Features Award for Social and Cultural Impact and screened internationally. With experience in both filmmaking and political media, Contreras specializes in cross-cultural storytelling, fundraising and social-impact narratives. Through her company Apis Mellifera Productions, she has developed a producing slate of international feature films with emerging directors across the U.S., Colombia, Nigeria and Canada. She is also developing her own first feature, Oranges.