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Aitch Alberto        

Latinx Filmmaker Known for 'Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe'

Aitch Alberto is a writer/director born and raised in Miami, Florida. She is a Sundance Episodic Lab fellow, recipient of a Skowhegan Artist Residency, a Yaddo fellowship, a Latino Screenwriting Project Fellowship, and an alumnus of the Outfest Screenwriting Lab.

Alberto has written on Duster, a 1970s-set crime drama series from J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan for HBO Max. She also served as a writer on AppleTV+’s BAFTA and Film Independent Nominated anthology series "Little America" from Lee Eisenburg, Sian Heder, Alan Yang, Kumail Nanjiani, and Emily V. Gordon. Most recently, Alberto has adapted and directed the NYT's Best-Selling young adult novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sanez. The film was produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eugenio Derbez and made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

She has been included on The Black List's inaugural Latinx List, as well as the Tracking Board's Hit List and Young & Hungry List, and NALIP's list of "Latinx Directors You Should Know". Alberto has most recently been featured on Variety’s 10 Directors To Watch for 2022 and Indiewire’s 22 Rising Female Filmmakers to watch in 2022. Mostly recently, Vogue Poland named her one of this generations female defining voices.

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