Priscilla González Sainz is an award-winning who specializes in non-fiction media. A first-generation Mexican-American storyteller, she is interested in exploring themes of displacement, disempowerment, and identity in her work. She earned her MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University, where she was awarded a Stanford Arts grant and curated the Latin American Cinema series Espejos. Her thesis film ROOM 140 was a Student Academy Award Semifinalist and was nominated for the IDA Wolper Student Documentary Achievement Award. ROOM 140 has had over thirty screenings nationally and internationally, and has distribution through KQED Truly California Season 14 and The Atlantic Selects. Her current documentary "Status Pending" chronicles the personal and professional lives of five first generation Immigration Lawyers in Los Angeles, and was completed with the support of Tribeca Film Institute through the IF/Then Program.