Judith R. Escalona

Judith Escalona is a filmmaker, writer and gallerist. Her recent film BX3M won Best Picture in the Shawna Shea Film Festival. The urban drama garnered two awards at the International Filmmaker Festival in Berlin 2017 and two in Milan 2016. She previously wrote and directed The Krutch, a surreal narrative about a Puerto Rican psychoanalyst with an identity problem, starring Jaime Sánchez as the notorious Dr. Guzmán. In a scholarly work entitled Revolving Door Life Writing: Literature and Cinema of Puerto Rican Women, Christin Freyer, Ph.D. dedicates an entire chapter to a discussion of The Krutch. Escalona is in preproduction on "War Games" and working on a new screenplay. As a segment producer for CUNY-TV, she has received several awards and acknowledgments, including three Communicator Awards, and an IPPY for Best Video. In 1998, Escalona founded Puerto Rico and the American Dream (www.PRdream.com), the award-winning website on the history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora. PRdream offices were located in Spanish Harlem, NYC, where she launched several new media initiatives, among them the PRdream Oral History Project and the technology based art gallery MediaNoche (www.medianoche.us). Awards for BX3M: Best Feature - Newark Latino Film Festival 2018 Best Feature - Pocono Mountains Film Festival 2017 Best Feature - Shawna Shea Memorial Festival 2017 Best Supporting Actress and Actor - International Filmmakers Film Festival Berlin 2017 International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Berlin 2017: BX3M was nominated in 10 categories, including Best Feature Film and Best Director Best Cinematography - International Filmmaker Festival Milan 2016 Best Supporting Actress and Actor: International Filmmaker Festival Milan 2016 BX3M was nominated in 8 categories, including Best Director and Best Feature Film