Andres Torres-Vives is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have played at numerous festivals. Along with being a Fulbright and Jacob K. Javits Scholar, Andres has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA), along with multiple awards from the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts. He has aired work for the BBC, PRI, and KCET Los Angeles. Andres is a UCLA Film and Television Directing MFA, a Film Independent: Project Involve fellow, and full-time film faculty at The Herberger Insitute for Design and the Arts and the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State Universiity (ASU). His latest short film, ISTINMA won Best Short Film at the 39th Annual American Indian Motion Picture Awards.