Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose bold, genre-defying work explores gender, power, and cultural mythologies. Her films have screened at Tribeca, SXSW, Sundance, and Hot Docs, and aired on Starz, BBC, and PBS.

Her feature Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013) examines the legacy of Wonder Woman as a feminist icon. What Happened to Her (2016), a forensic look at the dead woman trope in film, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival. Águilas (2021), about volunteers searching for missing migrants in the borderlands, was picked up by The New Yorker and shortlisted for an Academy Award.

Her latest feature, Body Parts (2022), reveals the hidden labor behind sex scenes in Hollywood and streams on Starz and BBC Storyville. After Roe fell, she co-founded the Abortion Clinic Film Collective. Her short within the collective, As Long As We Can (2024), premiered at DC/DOX. She’s now in production on Taking the Reins, a documentary about how marginalized Americans are reclaiming the cowboy archetype.

Her work has been supported by NEH, ITVS, Sundance, Fork Films, and Latino Public Broadcasting. Guevara-Flanagan is Professor of Documentary at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, where she leads the MFA program in Documentary.

You can watch my films at Women Make Movies, Kanopy, Apple TV, and Starz among other places.