{"id":1048,"date":"2025-09-09T20:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/people\/gabriella-garcia-pardo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:01:31","slug":"gabriella-garcia-pardo","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/people\/gabriella-garcia-pardo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriella Garc\u00eda-Pardo"},"template":"","issue_tax":[],"topic_tax":[],"program_tax":[],"project_tax":[],"person_tax":[345],"fellowship_tax":[51],"person_type":[77],"class_list":["post-1048","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_type-fellow"],"acf":{"details":{"headshot":1049,"first_name":"Gabriella","last_name":"Garc\u00eda-Pardo","title":"New America Fellow, 2026","description":"","external_link":"","organization":"","helper_social_links":null,"helper_taxonomies":{"issue_tax":false,"topic_tax":false,"program_tax":false,"project_tax":false,"fellowship_tax":[51],"person_type":[77]}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"add_background_color":false,"content":"

Gabriella Garc\u00eda-Pardo is a Colombian-American filmmaker whose work explores the relationship between land, identity, and belonging across the United States and Latin America. She produced and co-wrote La Bonga<\/i> (premiered at True\/False, 2023) and Backside<\/i> (premiered at Tribeca, 2025), and she previously created short documentaries for National Geographic and filmed Tiny Desk Concerts at NPR. Garc\u00eda-Pardo is currently directing FENCED<\/i>, a darkly humorous documentary that uses fences as a lens to examine private property, American identity, and the human desire to control the world around us. Blending essay, playfulness, and observation, the project asks what happens when we take line-making too far.<\/p>

Selected Work<\/h2>