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Karina Carielo is an actress, voice over actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter. She was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and is of Mexican and Italian decent. Carielo has a degree from Our Lady of the Lake University in Communications Cinema Studies and a minor in Theater. Karina started acting at the age of eight in church plays. When she turned twelve she joined Group Animo a touring youth theater company that traveled and performed all over Texas. At the age of eighteen, she wrote, produced, directed and starred in her first full length live production at the Guadalupe Theater which is part of the city’s Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. Even with a heavy background in theater, for college she decided to study film instead and has been making films and working in the independent film industry in front and behind the camera. Karina Carielo was recently crowned The 2024 Best Actress Queen in The FIESTA SATX Film Festival for a film she wrote and directed called Just Business Nothing Personal. Interesting facts in 2012, Carielo was a quarterfinalist for The Academy Nicholl Fellowship.
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Artist Statement of Work
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In my work, I always find a way to put hidden easter eggs that represent me like a signature modus operandi. I do that with each project so hopefully my audience sees a patten like some of my favorite auteur directors that I look up to like Scorsese. My work is always personal so I become very passionate about what I put out there. Most of my themes are of strong female characters, if for some reason it's not, it is still a story from one of my own personal experiences.