Earl R. Merrill: Betzabe Garcia Is Emerging As An Atypical Director Who Takes On Whatever She Wants

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Betzabe Garcia Is Emerging As An Atypical Director Who Takes On Whatever She Wants

Betzabé Garcia broke out with a documentary in 2015, and since then she’s won awards for her short films – and now she’s working on “an over the top, hyper-stylized documentary which peers into the life of Garcia’s roommate, the now-famous YouTuber #Mickey, who at the age of 11 started making videos as a way of dealing with the intense homophobia present in her community.”