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Burn Me Back

Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a Latinx Playwrights Circle Fellow, and a three-time International Latino Book Award winner who authored Conversations With My Skin, and Homage To The Warrior Women. In this film by New York-based filmmaker Matt Haller, she recounts the grief and pain of losing her father, interwoven with her Puerto Rican heritage.

  • Matt Haller
    Director
    You Will Find Love (2024), Trading Post (2022); Goodbye, Darren (2023)
  • Peggy Robles-Alvarado
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Genres:
    Poetic, Essay, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    5:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Moving Words
    New York
    United States
    October 20, 2024
    Theatrical Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Short. Sweet. Film Festival
    Cleveland, Ohio
    United States
    February 28, 2025
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Matt Haller

Matt Haller is a writer and filmmaker born in New Haven, CT. He has directed a number of short films, including Trading Post (2022), Burn Me Back (2024), and You Will Find Love (2024). He has also produced films like Closing Shift (dir. Erin De La Mota) and the upcoming Plush Carpet (dir. Riley James). Along with being a filmmaker, he is a published essayist and art curator, having worked with the Roxy Cinema in Tribeca, the Colloquium of Unpopular Culture at NYU, and soon the Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn.

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