Jena Lacomis Garcia - Film Career

Film Career

Lacomis Garcia created several short films while living in Olympia, Washington. Mo and Floss, told cinéma vérité, is a short film that takes place over the one-and-a-half hour bus ride from Olympia to Seattle. A random and poignant moment sets off a discussion between Lacomis Garcia and a pair of just-released ex-convicts who discuss their past in prison and their aspirations for the future. Swim, a self-portrait, told via collages of childhood photos, film stills and digital footage that follows Lacomis Garcia on an innocent walk is propelled with a borrowed soundtrack. Kauri, a documentary about an actress turned social worker who contemplates the meaning of life and significant career change. She recalls recent tragic events (losing everything she owned to a sudden house fire and shortly thereafter losing her partner to a sudden death) that changed her outlook forever and the sense of peace she gathers from working with abused and exploited women. Featured in several gender film festivals in Olympia, Washington. "Seattle Welcomes the WTO," another cinéma vérité project which focused on the bedlam that quickly arose in the streets of downtown Seattle as a response to the three day World Trade Organization gathering. As a resident of Seattle at the time of the conference, Lacomis Garcia documented the police response to the protesters on a daily basis, and in the process became a recipient of the armed police reaction of tear gas and rubber bullets. Screened at a Seattle film festival.