My Name is Annabel

Annabel Hernandez, a performer with Down syndrome, shares her life and interviews friends and family about their perceptions of people with Down syndrome in this intimate documentary portrait.

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ABOUT THE FILM

Series: VOCES Shorts

Producer: Amity Hoffmann

Director: Ida Joglar

Genre: Documentary Short

Program Length: 20m 42s

Premiere Date: June 17, 2026

Annabel Hernandez, a performer with Down syndrome, shares her life and interviews friends and family about their perceptions of people with Down syndrome in this intimate documentary portrait.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Amity Hoffman
Producer

Amity Hoffman (My Name Is Annabel) is a filmmaker and producer originally from Wichita, Kansas, currently residing in Sarasota, Florida, where she writes and produces creative campaigns and commercials for a national communication company. Her first documentary feature (Director, Producer, Editor), The Best Show In Town (2021), received recognition from Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, Portland International Film Festival, Naples International Film Festival and Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. She brings 30 years of theater performance, directing, and design experience to her work, as well as five years of experience working with special needs actors.

Ida Joglar
Director

Ida Joglar (My Name Is Annabel) is a filmmaker, editor and video artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Currently based in Brooklyn, NY, she completed her MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts. Recently, her first feature, Kili Big (2021), a documentary about a group of plus-sized women attempting to carve space for themselves in the outdoor community, premiered at Geena Davis’s Bentonville Film Festival, where it won the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature, going on to play at renowned film festivals such as Heartland, Tallgrass and Montclair. Athena Film Festival honored Joglar with the Athena Breakthrough Director Award for her work on Kili Big. In the narrative space, she has written and directed several short films and edited shorts as well as the feature films Keep In Touch (2015) and Babysitter (2015).