Chelo Alvarez-Stehle

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle is a Spanish and American journalist and documentary filmmaker. In Japan, she worked as managing editor for International Press En Español weekly and as Tokyo correspondent for El Mundo daily. As a documentary filmmaker she is best known for Sands of Silence (Arenas de Silencio) [es], winner of the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards by the Los Angeles Press Club for Best Feature Documentary.

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Alvarez-Stehle in Bengal, India, 2000
Born
María Consolación Álvarez González

1957
Logroño, Spain
OccupationFilmmaker, journalist and translator

Career

Alvarez-Stehle was born in Logroño, Spain.[1]  Daughter of Domingo Álvarez Ruiz de Viñaspre, surgeon and senator, and Consuelo González Oñate. She studied Medicine at University of Navarra and University of Zaragoza but dropped out.

In 1991, she was awarded the EEC's Executive Training Programme (ETP) in Japan [2][3] fellowship and moved to Tokyo. She then worked for NHK Enterprises in the development of documentary films and as managing editor of International Press en español,[4] Japan’s first Spanish weekly. In 1994, she became Tokyo's correspondent for Spain's El Mundo daily.[5] In 1995, Chelo moved to California, settling in Malibu and continued to contribute to El Mundo and other media outlets such us Geo and Planeta Humano, specializing in social and women’s issues.

In 2002, she became an American Translators Association certified translator (English into Spanish). She has worked as a translator and a copy editor to support her creative work. Her book translation and editing includes museum guides for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2005, she edited the Spanish edition of Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium. Pope John Paul II, Rizzoli.

In 2003, Canal+ (Spanish satellite broadcasting company) turned her first reportage on child trafficking in the Himalayas for Planeta Humano magazine into the documentary film Tin Girls (Niñas de Hojalata, 2003)[6] for which Alvarez-Stehle was interviewer, assistant director and consultant.

In 2006, Alvarez-Stehle produced/directed The Power of 2, a short documentary on Cubans' thirst for inner peace, which has been distributed in over 30 countries. In 2009, she produced/directed Sold in America: A Modern-Day Tale of Sex Slavery, a short documentary on sex trafficking that premiered at the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival.[7][8]

In 2016 she produced, with director Tim Nackashi, the short Through The Wall, about a family divided by the Mexico-United States border. The film was acquired by The Guardian[9] and by Latino Public Broadcasting for PBS Digital Studios.[10] It won the award for Best Web Series at the 31st Imagen Awards[11] as well as a Social Impact Media Award.[12]

In 2016, she produced her first feature-length documentary, Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage, a film that addresses the full spectrum of sexual violence, from child sexual abuse and priest abuse to sexual assault and sex trafficking. The film's team of editors includes Academy Award-winner Kate Amend. It received multiple awards in the Americas and Europe. Alvarez-Stehle has presented it at over 25 film festivals across continents, at multiple universities such as Oxford and Yale, at Bar Associations in the US and Europe, at women's organizations, and in prisons to sexual violence offenders.[13][14][15]

Alvarez-Stehle's 2017 documentary about sex trafficking and exploitation, Sands of Silence, was her first feature-length film.[16] In 2018, the Los Angeles Press Club held a screening and Q&A of the film moderated by Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times.[17]

Presented in 2017 at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the United Nations, New York, along with Equality Now[18] and UN Women.

Presented at the European Parliament in 2017, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). [19]

Broadcast on RTVE on November 25, 2017, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Selected works

Documentary films
  • Tin Girls (Niñas de Hojalata) (2003). [film] On child trafficking in the Himalayas. Produced by: Canal +, Sogecable. Spain: Miguel Bardem. Chelo was Interviewer, Assistant Director and Consultant.[20]
  • Wisdom in Smoke (Saber a Tabaco) (2006). [short documentary] On the dying figure of Cuba's tobacco factory reader. Produced by EICTV. Cuba: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle et al.
  • Sold in America: A Modern-day Tale of Sex Slavery (2009). [short documentary] Produced by C. Alvarez-Stehle and C. Lutz. USA: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle.[21]
  • An Intimate Look at Occupy LA (2011). [short documentary] Produced by C. Alvarez-Stehle. USA: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle. The Huffington Post.[22]
  • Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage (2016). [film] Produced by innerLENS Productions. USA: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, producer/director/writer.[23]
  • Through the Wall (2016). [short documentary] On a family divided by the U.S./Mexico border. Produced by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle and Tim Nackashi. USA: Tim Nackashi.[24]
  • Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage (2016). [film] Produced by innerLENS Productions. USA: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, producer/director/writer.[25]
  • Montse Watkins: Kamakura Tales (2020). [film] In development. Produced by Chelo Alvarez-Stehle. Spain: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle.[26][27][28]

New media
  • SOS_SLAVES: Changing the Trafficking Game, a role-play video game[29]

Books
  • Montse desde quienes la conocieron (2006) In: F. Hiriart Tirone, Tras los pasos de Montse Watkins, 1st ed. Buenos Aires: Agencia Periodística CID - Diario del Viajero.[30]
  • Sans of Silence: Waves of Courage (2017) In: J. González-Esteban and C. López-Rico, ed., Periodismo, Derechos Humanos, Migración y Fronteras: Vigencia y Legado de Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1st ed.Murcia: Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche. Diego Marín Librero, pp. 141–172.  ISBN 978-84-17306-21-2 [31]

Book translation & editing
  • Memoria e identidad: Conversaciones al filo de dos milenios (2005) (Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium. Pope John Paul II, Rizzoli). Editing.  ISBN 978-08-4782-777-0.
  • Guía de las Colecciones del Museo de Arte de Filadelfia.(2002).(Philadelphia Museum of Art Handbook), 1st ed. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Editing.  ISBN 08-7633-158-4.
  • Y si... (If...) Perry, S. (1995). Los Angeles, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum. Translation.  ISBN 978-08-9236-542-5.
  • Guía de las ColeccionesMuseo J. Paul Getty (Handbook of the Collections), (1995). 1st ed. Malibu, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum. Editing.  ISBN 978-08-9236-328-5.
  • Astrología y religión en el mundo grecorromano (1989) (Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans), Cumont, F (1994). Barcelona: Edicomunicación, S.A. Translation. ISBN 978-84-7672-227-5.
  • La nube de lo desconocido (1987). (The cloud of unknowing, 14th century, Anonymous). Barcelona: Edicomunicación, S.A. Translation.  ISBN 978-84-7672-135-3.

Journalism
  • 2017 "Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage" Documentary Film: 59th Southern California Journalism Awards Best Feature Documentary by the Los Angeles Press Club.[32]
  • 2002 "The Devil's Water" (originally published as "El agua del diablo," Planeta Humano magazine, Spain). Reuters/IUCIN The World Conservation Union Award - Shortlisted.

Film

Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage" Feature-length documentary. Spanish title: Arenas de Silencio: Olas de Valor.

  • 2020 Malvinas Award — Festival del Cinema Latinoamericano di Trieste, Italy.[33]
  • 2018 Women Struggle & Rights Awards — Porto Femme Film Festival, Portugal.[34]
  • 2017 Best Documentary Feature — Southern California Journalism Awards - Los Angeles Press Club, California, USA
  • 2017 Best Documentary Humanitarian - The WIFTs (Women in Film and Television), West Hollywood, California, USA[35]
  • 2017 Best Documentary Nominee — 32nd Imagen Awards, Hollywood, California, USA
  • 2017 Second Prize — Premio fada a la Cultura (Cultural Award against Sexual Abuse) by Fundació Vicki Bernadet. Barcelona, Spain
  • 2017 Golden Iguana & Best Documentary — Guayaquil International Film Festival, Ecuador
  • 2017 Best Documentary - Honorary Mention — Festival Brasil de Cinema Internacional. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2016 Best Feature Documentary Audience Award — Awareness Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
  • 2016 First Prize & Silver Biznaga - Asserting Women's Rights — Málaga Film Festival , Málaga, Spain.

"Through the Wall". Short Documentary. Spanish title: "A través del muro".

  • 2016 Best Web Series — 31st. Imagen Awards – Winner Best Web Series, California, USA2017 SIMA Award – Social Impact Media Awards, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • 2017 Critic's Award — Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, California, USA
  • 2017 Special Jury Prize — Oxford Film Festival, Mississippi, USA
  • 2017 Second Winner — 2016 New Filmmakers from Spain, Los Angeles, California, USA

References
  1. Sanchis, Ima (February 18, 2017). "El abuso sexual es una pandemia". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. Martínez Garín, Charo (March 28, 1991). «Chelo Alvarez gets one of the two fellowship the EEC grants Spain to train experts in the Japanese market». [In Spanish] El Correo Español. El Pueblo Vasco (Rioja).
  3. July 1992. «Spanish Executives are trained in Tokyo». [In Spanish] DINERO (473): 76.
  4. "InternationalPress.es". International Press - Noticias de Japón en español (in Spanish). Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  5. Rubio, Pilar (February 7, 1993). «Chelo Álvarez, the first Rioja woman selected by the EEC to work in Japan also works for NHK-TV». [In Spanish]. La Rioja.
  6. Alvarez-Stehle, Chelo, Niñas de hojalata, retrieved August 13, 2020
  7. Alvarez-Stehle, Chelo, Sold in America, retrieved August 13, 2020
  8. "Sold in America". TheMarginalized.com. August 13, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  9. Nackashi, Tim; Alvarez-Stehle, Chelo (March 29, 2016). "Through the wall: A family divided by the US-Mexico border – video". The Guardian. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  10. "Through the Wall". Latino Public Broadcasting; PBS Indies. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  11. "Winners of 31st Annual Imagen Awards Announced". Imagen Awards. Beverly Hills, CA. September 9, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  12. "Through The Wall Student Choice Award". Social Media Impact Awards. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  13. Times, Suzanne Guldimann / Special to The Malibu. "Malibu Film Festival to Feature Local Films". Malibu Times. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  14. "59th SoCal Journalism Awards Winners Announced – Los Angeles Press Club". Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  15. Foundation, Imagen. "Winners of 31st Annual Imagen Awards Announced". Imagen Foundation. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  16. Guldimann, Suzanne. "Malibu Film Festival to Feature Local Films". Malibu Times. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  17. "SANDS OF SILENCE: Waves of Courage Screening". Los Angeles Press Club. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  18. "2017 Calendar Of Events". Equality Now. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  19. "S&D Film Screening: Sands of Silence". Socialists & Democrats. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  20. "La voz de las esclavas del siglo XXI". La Rioja (in Spanish). 2010-12-18. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  21. "Sold in America & Sands of Silence". www.calcasa.org. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  22. "A LOOK INSIDE: Occupy LA Opens Its Tents". HuffPost. Los Angeles. October 10, 2011. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  23. Gómez, Lula (November 15, 2016). "Una invitación a romper el silencio". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  24. Nackashi, Tim (March 29, 2016). "Through the wall: a family divided by the US-Mexico border – video". The Guardian. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  25. Gómez, Lula (November 15, 2016). "Una invitación a romper el silencio". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  26. Alvarez-Stehle, Chelo (October 10, 2019), MONTSE WATKINS: Cuentos de Kamakura - Teaser 4:30 min, retrieved August 13, 2020
  27. Iturbe, Antonio. "Montse Watkins: La luna del Sol Naciente". Revista Librujula (in Spanish). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  28. "Rinden homenaje en Barcelona a la periodista y traductora Montse Watkins". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). November 19, 2019. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  29. Jordan, Bibi (January 4, 2012). "Working to change human trafficking". Malibu Times. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  30. Hiriart Tirone, Fernando. Tras los pasos de Montse Watkins. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  31. "Resultados de búsqueda para: 'Periodismo y Derechos Humanos'". www.diegomarin.com. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  32. "SANDS OF SILENCE: Waves of Courage Screening – Los Angeles Press Club". Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  33. "Festival del Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste 2020". www.cinelatinotrieste.org. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  34. "Porto Femme 18′ Winners". Porto Femme. 2018-06-04. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  35. "Women's International Film & Television Showcase". thewifts.org. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
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