UVALDE MOM
Director, Producer, Writer | 89’ | 2025
Angeli Rose Gomez, a farm worker and single mom, ran into Robb Elementary in Uvalde, TX to save her two sons during a mass shooting, while nearly 400 armed officers waited 77 minutes to intervene. She soon faces harassment from authorities, who weaponize her tumultuous past. As the Uvalde community demands accountability and change, conflicting narratives emerge from authorities, and the U.S. Department of Justice launches an investigation. One year on, the grieving community continues to fight for justice.
SELECTED FESTIVALS
2025 SXSW Film Festival, Documentary Spotlight
LA Latino Film Festival, Official Selection
DC/DOX, Official Selection
CineFestival, Opening Night Film
“Uvalde Mom” may inspire when chronicling a true act of heroism, but Prado offers a far more sophisticated and complex portrait exposing the underlying factors ranging from discriminatory dissemination of local resources to access to guns…”
Steven Saito, The Moveable Feast
“Uvalde Mom is a personal story, it is also a damning portrait of law enforcement’s inaction during the shooting and the ongoing struggles for accountability.”
Jovanka Palacios & Sam Stockbridge, Reform Austin
“Gomez is honest and outspoken, and Prado’s work shares these sensibilities, as well … Uvalde Mom is an impressively considered construction, especially as far as the editing and the scoring ... Prado’s film is a work of reciprocal trust and deep empathy.”
“...the film is much more than a response to critics. Prado skillfully accomplishes this through her formal strategy. This documentary is a complex weave that reflects the push-pull of the personal and public discourses that occurred around her actions.”
Barbara Goslawski, Screen Anarchy
“... director Anayansi Prado captured the heart of a town in trauma”
KEY CREDITS
Directed and produced by: Anayansi Prado
Produced by: Ina Fichman
Editor: Pablo Proenza
Written by: Anayansi Prado, Pablo Proenza
Cinematographer: E.J. Enríquez, MJ Johnston
Original music: Ramachandra Bocar
Executive Producers: Davis Guggenheim, Rahdi Taylor, James Costa, Julie Parker Benello, Patty Quillin
Co-Executive Producer: Monika Parekh, Jess Kwan, InMaat
Producer: David Goldblum
In Association with: Concordia Fellowship, Intuitive Pictures, Secret Sauce Media, and Conscious Contact
With support from: Concordia Fellowship, Sundance Documentary Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Perspective Fund, InMaat Foundation, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Production company: Sanarte Films, LLC
