Documentary Film

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THE LAST PARTERA (2025)
2025 Full Frame World Premiere
2017 Big Sky Pitch Competition

“The Last Partera intimately portrays the ﬁnal years of Doña Miriam Elizondo, a centenarian midwife in Costa Rica who has delivered more than 2,000 babies. From years of patient observation, the ﬁlmmakers weave a lyrical, beautifully photographed narrative.” — Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Directors | Victoria Bouloubasis & Ned Phillips
DP | Ned Phillips
Producers | Pilar Timpane, Victoria Bouloubasis

FORGET ME NOT (2023)
2024 Emmy Nominee, Oustanding Spanish Language Feature

As Latinos age in the Rio Grande Valley, the border region is experiencing a surge of dementia-related disease – pushing scientists to find out why. The rising burden weighs heavily on caregivers such as Lupita Casas. She has spent nearly half her life caring for her father, who has Alzheimer’s, and now her mother, who recently developed dementia. Lupita’s story exemplifies the challenges of caring for ailing parents in an area with scant support and medical resources.

Direction + Production | Victoria Bouloubasis, Daisy Yuhas
DP | Anna Clare Spelman

MAKING WAVES (2022)
2023 River Run Film Festival
2022 New Orleans Film Festival
2022 NC Latin American Film Festival

In 2011, Areli and Leon moved to Durham and started a coffee business out of a bike cart. Now they have three thriving shops and a roastery, winning national recognition as 2022 Microroaster of the Year. Areli’s roots in Mexico and Leon’s love of history and spices culminate as Cocoa Cinnamon and Little Waves Coffee Roasters, gems at the heart of our Durham community. Proud to share their story in partnership with VisitNC .

Directed by Victoria Bouloubasis + Pilar Timpane
Art Director | Lauren Vied Allen
DP | Pilar Timpane
Additional Camera | Sara Riazati, Victoria Bouloubasis, Ana Hoppert Flores, Lauren Vied Allen
Production Assistant | Ana Hoppert Flores
Music | Treee City
Sound Recordist | Piper Kessler
Audio Mixer | Jonathan Henderson
Writer | Victoria Bouloubasis
Editor | Pilar Timpane
Title design | Shanthony Exum
DJ party by Mamis & the Papis
Muses | Areli Barrera Grodski, Leon Grodski Barrera, Cocoa Cinnamon, Little Waves Coffee Roasters

RISING UP IN THE HEARTLAND (2022)
2023 Emmy Nominee, Oustanding Spanish Language Feature
2022 ONA Award Winner

COVID-19 hammered essential workers across the United States. After long struggles to regain their health, marginalized and undocumented Latino workers in rural Iowa took on a bold new challenge this year: demanding a share of the pandemic relief funds that have excluded them.

First, they fought for their lives. Now they are fighting for their livelihoods.

Direction + Production | Federica Narancio, Victoria Bouloubasis, Anna Clare Spelman

A Univision Noticias production with support from HHMI Department of Science Education

NIÑAS / SOMOS EL FUEGO (2021)
2022 Premio Gabo Award Winner

In one of Guatemala’s deadliest tragedies since the end of its civil war, a 2017 fire in a state-run youth shelter killed 41 teenage girls and left 15 seriously wounded. Years later, the remaining young survivors and the victims’ families grapple with injustice, government negligence, and life as teenagers, unveiling how gendered violence, corruption and impunity pervade Latin America.

Directors | Monica Wise Robles & Victoria Bouloubasis
DP | Monica Wise Robles
Producers | Lu Reinoso Flores, Monica Wise Robles, Victoria Bouloubasis

Reporting was made possible with support from the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) as part of its Adelante Latin America fellowship. This nonfiction film is part of the transmedia journalism project “No fue el fuego” (“It was not the fire”) by Agencia Ocote.

HEROES OF THE PANDEMIC (2020)
2021 Edward Murrow Award Winner
2021 Webby Award Winner - Longform Documentary
2021 Webby Award Winner - People’s Voice

At the peak of the pandemic, nearly half of positive Covid-19 cases in North Carolina were among Latinos, despite just being 9.6% of the population. In the absence of adequate state or federal support, a group of Latina doctors and activists is taking the community’s health into their own hands.

Production | Andrea Patiño Contreras & Victoria Bouloubasis
Camera | Andrea Patiño Contreras & Casey Toth
Editing | Andrea Patiño Contreras

Published as a partnership of Univision Digital and Enlace Latino NC. This project was supported by the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Office of Durham and Community Affairs at Duke University.

”THIS IS REAL” (2020)
A Latino family fights for their right to medical care while battling COVID-19.

Production | Andrea Patiño Contreras & Victoria Bouloubasis
Animation | Raul Avila

Published as a partnership of Univision Digital and Enlace Latino NC. This project was supported by the Center for Documentary Studies and Duke Office of Durham and Community Affairs at Duke University.

UN BUEN CARNICERO (2014)
2023 Cine Casual Film Series
2022 NCMA Latin American Film Series
2016 Indie Grits Film Festival
2015 PBS Online Film Festival
2015 NC Latin American Film Festival

A good butcher listens. When customers at Cliff's Meat Market in Carrboro, North Carolina began asking for cuts in Spanish, owner Cliff Collins started looking for help. For nearly 18 years Tolo Martinez has worked behind Cliff's counter, learning "country" English and giving college professors, blue-collar workers and long-time patrons exactly what they want—and always with a smile. Un Buen Carnicero (A Good Butcher) goes behind the courtesies of the butcher's counter on the eve of Independence Day to explore the complex realities of immigrant life while celebrating America's freedom and questioning its convenience.
14 min. - Spanish & English with subtitles

This film was underwritten by the Southern Foodways Alliance and their Greenhouse Films project.

LA COMIDA DE LOS COCINEROS / LINE COOKS AT HOME (2016)
2016 First Place Multimedia Award - Association of Food Journalists
2016 #RightToWork Panel & Screening
2017 Food Media South
2017 Indie Grits Film Festival
2017 PBS Reel South Short Film Award

Before leaving Mexico for North Carolina, Oscar didn’t know how to flip a tortilla on the grill. Now, under the direction of a James Beard award-winning chef, he and fellow cooks Javier, Romeo and Ramiro run the line at the high-end Lantern Restaurant in Chapel Hill. The cocineros have adapted to life in a new country by leaning on each other in the kitchen—both at work and at home. Their big Sunday family meal reveals food traditions old and new.
6 min. - Spanish with English subtitles

Direction, Production & Script | Victoria Bouloubasis
Direction, Film & Editing | Andrea Patiño Contreras

Produced for Feet in 2 Worlds; also part of my UNC master's thesis work.