El Poeta

Kelly Duane De la Vega
Co-producer/Co-director
Loteria Films founder Kelly Duane de la Vega’s feature documentaries have screened at hundreds of film festivals worldwide, opened theatrically across the country and broadcast nationally on POV/PBS and the Documentary Channel. Her work has received the Writer’s Guild of America’s Best Documentary Screenplay Award, Gotham Independent Film’s Best Documentary Award and multiple national Emmy nominations. A recent Sundance, HBO and Film Independent Fellow, Duane de la Vega’s film Better This World won Best Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International and Sarasota Film Festivals, received an IDA Creative Achievement Award and was selected to screen at MoMA’s documentary fortnight. Her feature documentary Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America opened theatrically nationwide, was acquired by the Smithsonian for its permanent collection, and is used by more than 50 universities internationally. Duane de la Vega also has a history of producing powerful short format work for The New York Times Op-Docs, Mother Jones, and the Independent Film Channel, among others. She teaches the course Documentary Forms at the University of California, Berkeley.

Katie Galloway
Co-producer/Co-director
Loteria Films principal Katie Galloway is a documentary director, producer, and writer whose films explore the intersections of institutional power, civil and human rights, and political activism. Better This World (POV, 2011-2012) won the WGA’s Best Documentary Screenplay Award, Best Documentary at the Gotham Independent Film Awards and an International Documentary Association Creative Recognition Award and is currently being developed as a narrative feature. Galloway’s feature documentary Prison Town, USA (POV, 2007) was developed as a fiction television series by IFC, for which she co-wrote the first three episodes. She produced and reported an award-winning trio of films on the American criminal justice system for PBS FRONTLINE: Snitch, Requiem for Frank Lee Smith, and The Case for Innocence. A two-time Sundance Fellow and HBO/Film Independent Documentary Fellow, Galloway taught documentary production at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and now teaches in Media Studies at U.C. Berkeley, where she was also recently the filmmaker in residence at the Journalism School’s Investigative Reporting Program. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on Political Psychology and Public Law.