Lesley Elizondo is a Mexican American writer, director, and cinematographer born and raised in Los Angeles California. As a first generation art scholar and filmmaker, she looks to tell significantly diverse stories through a multicultural American lens. Lesley writes and directs stories based within the Mexican and the American diasporas exploring themes of loss and love within familial heritage and folklore. In 2018 she was awarded the Women In Film Loreen Arbus Fellowship in Cinematography and the Antonio David Blanco Fellowship for her thesis film. In 2017, she received the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts fellowship (2016,2017); the Dorothy Arzner Memorial Fund and was chosen to be one of NALIP's Media Summit Emerging Content Creator. Lesley has completed a Master of Fine Arts in Cinematography from UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Narrative Film Directing from California State University of Long Beach.