Macha Colón is an un-disciplined afro-queer artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico who studied Black & Puerto Rican Studies and Film & Media Studies at Hunter College, NYC. She began as a documentary editor. On her return to PR, she worked for various independent TV productions as editor and as director. She was editor of Mi Santa Mirada, the first Puerto Rican film to compete for Cannes’s Palm D’Or short film section. She directed the short documentary El Hijo de Ruby, winner of best documentary at the Kerry Film Festival. She made a commissioned video piece for the Museum of Contemporary Art called Recetario. She received a 2019 Art Matters Foundation grant and a Puerto Rican Artist grant from NALAC. She performs rock/pop music with her band Macha Colón y Los Okapi in alternative venues since 2008. They released their first album Little Tank of Love and have performed in NYC at the Loisaida Festival, La Marqueta Retoña in El Barrio, and the New New Museum. She won an Iberoamerican documentary competition, DocTV, from Puerto Rico to film Lucecita Benítez, a groundbreaking afro-queer Puerto Rican diva singer. She also received the first Resiliency Award through the Arts from the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago in 2019. She is now in post-production of her first feature narrative, Perfume de Gardenias, which has received funds from Ibermedia and Tribeca Film Institute and begins filming in February 2020.