Corazón Pictures was founded in 1997 bringing two filmmakers together with a single vision to tell stories focusing on women from various cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds as main characters. Raquel Cecilia and Jacqui Frost combined their talents of producing, writing, directing and cinematography to create projects that include the award winning feature film Entwined, which screened in over 30 film festivals worldwide. They are currently in post-production on a feature length documentary about the life and art of Cuban born sculptor Ana Mendieta as well as developing a narrative feature about the artist's life.
Raquel Cecilia is a producer, director, and writer. Her features and short films have screened in film festivals and art museums world wide.
Her short documentary, Whispering Cave, premiered in Paris at the Jeu de Paume in October of 2018. Ana Mendieta, Nature Inside, traveled with the art exhibition Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta for three years and also screened at the Havana International Film Festival in 2017. The film is currently on view in the permanent collection at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cubanos, in Havana, Cuba and in the collection at Middelheim Museum in Belgium. Her first feature film, shot on Super-16, was a festival favorite and traveled the LGBTQ+ circuit for three years internationally.
Jacqui Frost has been making films for 30 years as a producer and cinematographer. She was cinematographer on Whispering Cave and Rebel by Nature. Frost is the author of Cinematography for Directors, a Guide to Creative Collaboration and the newly released book, Eye Behind the Lens: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers published by Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Frost is Professor Emeritus in the Cinema and Television Arts Department at California State University, Fullerton where she taught Cinematography, Documentary production and The Language of Film. She also taught in Florence, Italy in the Study Abroad Program and is currently an adjunct at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has an MFA in Motion Picture Production from The University of Miami and an MA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.
