Valeria Contreras is an award-winning filmmaker from the United States-Mexico border whose work explores the impact of borders on love, identity, and the meaning of home. She is a NALIP Director Incubator Fellow, Cine Qua Non Storylines Fellow, Producers Guild of America Create Fellow, Film Independent Producing Lab Fellow, and Film Independent Fast Track Fellow. Her directorial work includes Homesick, a short film about two lovers separated by the pandemic and the border, which screened at the Oscar-qualifying Atlanta Film Festival. Her upcoming short film, Oranges, was selected for the NALIP Director Incubator, sponsored by Netflix, and serves as a proof-of-concept for her feature screenplay of the same name, further developed through the El Paso Community Foundation Border Art Residency and Cine Qua Non Lab. Valeria is a graduate of the University of Chicago and holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University in New York City.

Oranges — When an ambitious, young woman leaves her hometown along the United States-Mexico border for new horizons in Mexico City, her older sister remains behind to care for their ailing mother. As the distance between them stretches across borders and time, their once-close bond begins to unravel, leaving the sisters to reckon with what remains.