about g. grinwald-alves

She has worked on numerous feature film sets— the first was ‘While We’re Young’, which she co-wrote and directed. The second film, ‘Martin Eden’, was directed and co-written by Jay Craven and Fred Strype through a program called Cinema Sarah Lawrence where they were asked to lead behind-the-scenes interviews with cast and crew and create short marketable videos for the program and film. On G’s third feature film, directed by Craig Singer, she was a script supervisor. G. worked as an assistant editor at C41 Media for David Shapiro’s ‘Untitled Pizza Movie’ which screened at Sundance Film Festival.

G. strives to uplift and amplify the voices of queer, neurodiverse people by centering them in her character-driven narratives and documentary film work. G’s mission within their storytelling is creating space for empathy and care and revolutionizing the connection between the viewer and the subjects on-screen.

G. Grinwald-Alves (she/they) is a queer Latine and Jewish filmmaker, media educator and freelance videographer on unceded Lenape lands (Lenapehoking/NY/NJ). G is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s Teachers College where she earned her master’s degree in Instructional Technology and Media with a focus on critical abolitionist and Indigenous pedagogical work that centers the presence and futurity of Black and Indigenous students. For the last two years, G has worked in all 5 boroughs of NYC as a film and media teaching artist and instructor. Her latest residency was in Hunts Point in the Bronx where she worked with students to research, write, direct, and edit their first documentary films. G is currently working with the Lenape Center on a video curriculum for pre-K-2nd grade students in NYC public schools.

G. attended Sarah Lawrence College where she studied documentary filmmaking, screenwriting, and non-fiction writing under the mentorship of Damani Baker, Robin Starbuck and Fred Strype. G’s short documentary film ‘Vignette’ has been screened at Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, Ethnografilm Festival (in Paris), and was a semi-finalist for the London International Motion Picture Awards. She is currently working on her third documentary film exploring the varied experiences of queer neurodivergent people as they navigate through a deeply colonized, capitalistic, neurotypical world.