About Paloma Valenzuela
Paloma Valenzuela is a Dominican-American writer, director, producer, lecturer and actress originally from the city of Boston. She is the creative director of the production company La Palomita Productions. She is the writer/producer/creator of the comedic web series “The Pineapple Diaries.” In 2017 the show was featured in Latina Magazine “5 Web Series Every Latinx Needs to Watch Right Now.” Her work has participated as Official Selection at film festivals such as the New Orleans Film Festival and Miami Short Film Festival among others. In 2019 Paloma was featured in Boston Magazine’s “Boston’s New Creative Guard” and selected as one of the WBUR The Artery 25, a series highlighting millennials of color making an impact in the Boston arts scene. In 2019 Paloma won Best Supporting Actress at the Premios IRIS Dominicana Movie Awards for her role as Lolita in the film “Un 4to de Josue,” which streamed on HBO. Paloma has collaborated with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as a museum Neighborhood Salon Artist Luminary. From 2020-2021 she directed an edited the 7 episode series for the Gardner Museum entitled “The Luminary Lens Series”. She is the recipient of the 2016 Creative City Grant and in 2019 she was granted the City of Boston Artist Fellowship. In May of 2024 her documentary film "The Seltzer Factory" premiered in Boston. She has worked as an educator and lecturer at Brandeis University, GrubStreet and taught the Fast Forward film program at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston.