MIRAAA Media Festival

MIRAAA Media Festival is a tri-city experimental media festival, will take place over three consecutive weekends in August 2026 in McAllen, Laredo and Eagle Pass. Our mission is to empower artists from the south Texas-Mexico borderlands to explore non-traditional storytelling through collaboration and experimentation with the intention of illuminating under-represented border narratives. This year, we are opening the festival to artists / creatives / filmmakers / media-makers / experimenters from these regions, as well as others across the Texas-Mexico border.

This year, we are opening the festival to artists / creatives / filmmakers / media-makers / experimenters from these regions, as well as others across the Texas-Mexico border.

CORE VALUES

✰ MIRAAA Media Festival’s mission is to empower frontera artists to explore non-traditional storytelling and media through collaboration and experimentation with the intention of illuminating under-represented border narratives.

✰ MIRAAA Media Festival is committed to centering the work of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and other underrepresented individuals. We recognize the multitudes of intersections between these communities, and will continue to learn, listen and evolve our understanding of these experiences.

✰ MIRAAA Media Festival is feminist, queer, sex-positive, anti-capitalist and pro-collective liberation for oppressed communities across the globe.

✰ MIRAAA Media Festival does not tolerate or support individuals who perpetuate harm (physically, emotionally) through anti-immigrant, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist, and/or ableist comments, actions and/or artistic representations.

✰ MIRAAA Media Festival believes in restorative justice and harm reduction, and our commitment to this practice is a commitment to the betterment of our community.

✰ MIRAAA Media Festival reserves the decision to ban, remove, or block individuals who cause psychological, physical, emotional or mental harm at the festival, both physically and virtually.