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How To Clean A House in 10 Easy Steps

Beatriz Valencia, a domestic worker, and her daughter-filmmaker, Carolina, collaborate to create the fictional character of a writer. Together, mother and daughter capture the slippage between truth and fantasy, in a hybrid documentary that tells a story about immigration, labor, dreams and the power of fiction to spark emancipation.  

Director: Carolina González Valencia

Producers: Brenda Ávila-Hanna, Olga Segura, Carolina González Valencia

Director of Photography: Gonzalo Escobar Mora

Editors: Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Daniel Chavez Ontiveros

Executive Producers: Ai-jen Poo, Alfonso Cuarón, Ryan Gall, Juan Mejía Botero, Amanda Branson Gill

Animation: Carolina González Valencia, Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Diego Felipe Cortés

Original Music: Tálata Rodriguez, Mariano Di Cesare

Sound Design: Lena Esquenazi, Valeria Mancheva

Re Recording Mixer 5.1: António Porém Pires, CAS

Post Production: Splendor Omnia

With: Beatriz Valencia

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Festivals and Awards:

  • True/False Film Festival, True Life Award

  • The San Francisco International Film Festival, the Kirby Walker Documentary Award

  • Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival 

  • Instagram
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