Chelo Alvarez-Stehle

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle is a Spanish-American journalist and documentary filmmaker. As a journalist, she worked as a Tokyo correspondent and for the El Mundo newspaper. As a documentary filmmaker she produced Sands of Silence, winner of the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards by the Los Angeles Press Club for Best Feature Documentary.

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Alvarez-Stehle in Bengal, India, 2000
Born
María Consolación Álvarez González

Logroño, Spain
OccupationFilmmaker, journalist and translator

Career

Alvarez-Stehle was born in Logroño, Spain.[1] In the early 1990s, she lived in Japan, where she was the first editor of the weekly Spanish-language International Press, was a Tokyo correspondent for El Mundo, and worked for the NHK television network.[1] She moved to California in 1995,[2] settling in Malibu.[1]

In 2016 she produced, with director Tim Nackashi, the short Through The Wall, about a family divided by the Mexico-United States border. The film was acquired by The Guardian[3] and by Latino Public Broadcasting for PBS Digital Studios.[4] It won the award for Best Web Series at the 31st Imagen Awards[5] as well as a Social Impact Media Award.[6]

Alvarez-Stehle's 2017 documentary about sex trafficking and exploitation, Sands of Silence, was her first feature-length film.[7] It won the Best Documentary Award at the Malibu Film Festival and the Guayaquil International Film Festival in Ecuador.[8] It was also named Best Documentary Feature by the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards.[9]

Selected works

Documentary films
  • Sold in America: A Modern-day Tale of Sex Slavery (2009). [short documentary] Produced by C. Alvarez-Stehle and C. Lutz. USA: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle.[10]
  • An Intimate Look at Occupy LA (2011). [short documentary] Produced by C. Alvarez-Stehle. USA: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle. The Huffington Post.[11]
  • Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage (2016). [film] Produced by innerLENS Productions. USA: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, producer/director/writer.[12]
  • Through the Wall (2016). [short documentary] On a family divided by the U.S./Mexico border. Produced by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle and Tim Nackashi. USA: Tim Nackashi.[13]

New media
  • SOS_SLAVES: Changing the Trafficking Game, a role-playing video game[14]

References
  1. Sanchis, Ima (2017-02-18). ""El abuso sexual es una pandemia"". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  2. "El Cervantes de Tokio acogió la proyección de documental de Chelo Álvarez-Stehle 'Arenas de silencio: olas de valor'" (in Spanish). October 10, 2018. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  3. Nackashi, Tim; Alvarez-Stehle, Chelo (March 29, 2016). "Through the wall: A family divided by the US-Mexico border – video". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  4. "Through the Wall". Latino Public Broadcasting; PBS Indies. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  5. "Winners of 31st Annual Imagen Awards Announced". Imagen Awards. Beberly Hills, CA. September 9, 2016. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  6. "Through The Wall Student Choice Award". Social Media Impact Awards. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  7. Guldimann, Suzanne. "Malibu Film Festival to Feature Local Films". Malibu Times. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  8. Redacción, Guayaquil. ""La Familia, película premiada como la mejor en el Festival Internacional de Cine en Guayaquil"". El Comercio, Ecuador. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  9. "59th SoCal Journalism Awards Winners Announced". Los Angeles Press Club. June 25, 2017. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
  10. "Sold in America & Sands of Silence". www.calcasa.org. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  11. "A LOOK INSIDE: Occupy LA Opens Its Tents". HuffPost. Los Angeles. October 10, 2011. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  12. Gómez, Lula (November 15, 2016). "Una invitación a romper el silencio". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  13. Nackashi, Tim (March 29, 2016). "Through the wall: a family divided by the US-Mexico border – video". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
  14. Jordan, Bibi (2012-01-04). "Working to change human trafficking". Malibu Times. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
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