• About Sebastián Lasaosa Rogers

Sebastián was a Spanish-American filmmaker and cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Freeing Juanita is his directorial feature debut. As a cinematographer he has lensed documentaries such as The Art of Making It (2021) which won an Audience Award at SXSW. Sebastián's documentary short film Esquilas en la montaña / Bells in the Mountains (2017) premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival. Sebastián got his start in film while studying Anthropology and Film at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN where he made his first videos supporting social justice and workers' rights campaigns.