Laura Bustillos Jáquez is a documentary filmmaker and photographer from the border of Mexico and the United States. She focuses on telling stories about immigration, social reconstruction movements, and culture around the world. Laura graduated with a BA in Visual Journalism and a special recognition from Brooks Institute in Ventura, California. She then obtained a David Lynch MA in Film at Maharishi University in 2015.
She has traveled with Hip Hop Diplomacy organization ‘Next Level’ to Portugal and the Philippines as a filmmaker in 2022 and 2023. She is a 2020 Create Change fellow alum of The Laundromat Project in NYC, was 2019’s Distinguished Global Speaker on Immigration, Humanity, and Empowerment at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, participated in Creative Capital’s “Taller Profesional para Artistas” in 2019, was invited lecturer of “Decolonizing our Identities” at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez as well as ISMA in Cotonou, Benin as part of “Le Festival International de court-métrage des écoles de cinema”, among other creative accomplishments as a Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, and more.
She is the founder of LaBú Productions and is currently based in New York City.
CV available upon request - laura@labuproductions.com