Biography
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is a documentary filmmaker whose work spans experimental and traditional nonfiction forms, often centering on gender, power, and representation. Her films have screened widely at festivals including Tribeca, SXSW, Hot Docs, Sundance, and DC/DOX, and have been broadcast on Starz, the BBC, and PBS.
Her feature Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013) traces the evolution of Wonder Woman as a cultural icon and aired on PBS’s Independent Lens. What Happened to Her (2016), a forensic meditation on the dead woman trope in Hollywood, premiered at Hot Docs and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival. Mothertime (2018), a video diary of early motherhood, is distributed by Women Make Movies.
Her short film Águilas (2021), about volunteers searching for missing migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border, won awards at SXSW, LALIFF, and Big Sky, was acquired by The New Yorker, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Her most recent feature, Body Parts (2022), investigates how sex scenes are made in Hollywood and is currently streaming on Starz and the BBC.
Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Guevara-Flanagan co-founded the Abortion Clinic Film Collective. She subsequently made the short film, As Long As We Can (2024), about a day-in-the-life of an Phoenix abortion clinic which premiered at DC/DOX. She is currently in production on Taking the Reins, a feature exploring the reinvention of the cowboy by marginalized communities; the film is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She is a Professor at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, where she leads the MFA Documentary program.