Welcome to our I AM Workshop Conversation Series — a transformative journey designed to inspire self-discovery and ignite your creative spirit — with your hosts AnaMaria Davalos, Maria Lanas, and Maclovia Martell.

In this heartfelt episode, our guest Maclovia Martell — filmmaker, artist, educator, and documentarian — shares her creative and spiritual journey. Born into an artistic family where her grandfather was a post-impressionist painter and her mother, Carmen Gutierrez (“Carmen G”), was the first Mexican woman to perform on Broadway, Maclovia discovered suitcases filled with her mother’s forgotten photographs — a discovery that inspired her first documentary, later screened at Lincoln Center.

From there, she went on to create award-winning short  ...