Voice

Rebekah Grace de Guzman is a 16-year-old Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker. Growing up as a Filipina American in northeast LA, Rebekah aspires to use her creativity to drive social change. In 2023, she was a part of youth development program Girls’ Voices Now and created a short documentary called The Beauty in Being Different, which explores how the Western beauty standard negatively impacts young women of color. The film is currently nominated at the Children’s & Family Emmy Awards for Best Short Form Live Action Program. Later that year, she directed The Pressure In-Between, a short documentary that chronicles the different pressures teenagers experience. STALL, her directorial short narrative debut made as part of Made In Her Image's 2024 Open Lens Film Lab, is about a teenager spiraling within the sanctuary of a high school bathroom stall. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Rebekah has interned for social justice organizations such as The Representation Project and Search to Involve Pilipino Americans.