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"How do stories shape identity, reflect power, and create belonging across cultures?"

Everest Landa

Throughout my career, I’ve been fascinated by how stories create the way we understand reality — narrative dictates who is seen and how, and how audiences respond emotionally to them. That question has guided my work for more than twenty years — creating live events, documentaries, podcasts, and institutional storytelling, and into doctoral research on Latino and Latinx screenwriters in Hollywood.

Today, that work has evolved into The Prism™ — a framework for helping organizations understand, create, and evaluate media.

I work as a collaborator, building teams of researchers, editors, producers, translators, voice-over artists, recording studios, location scouts, cinematographers, and actors around every project. I have taught at UNAM for 12 years — screenwriting, storytelling, and intercultural communication. Based in Mexico City, collaborating with organizations anywhere in the world.

An intellectual journey
2007Screenwriting2014Scholar-Practitioner2015Creative Direction2020Documentary Practice2024Research2026The Prism™

2007 · Screenwriting

Short films, public television (Canal 22) and large-scale live events.

2014 · Scholar-Practitioner

Teaching at UNAM while working in the industry — each side feeding the other.

2015 · Creative Direction

Writers’ rooms for public-TV science programming, corporate events and global brands.

2020 · Documentary Practice

Podcasts and nonfiction: Y sin embargo se mueve, Rifadxs.

2024 · Research

Doctoral work on Latino screenwriters in Hollywood; public speaking at US universities and global companies.

2026 · The Prism™

The framework that organizes it all — analysis, creation, evaluation.

Book chapter
Published work

Contributor with the chapter "Sobre la Bestia se llega a la Jaula de oro" in Y tú, ¿cómo cruzaste la frontera? Narrativas de la migración — Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN-UNAM), 2019.

Grants

○ Oxford Brookes University — Migration Summer School Scholarship

○ Latin American Studies Association — Speaker Grant

○ Berlinale Talent Campus Guadalajara — Selected participant

○ IMCINE, Mexico’s National Film Institute — Screenwriting Grant (Documentary)

○ IMCINE, Mexico’s National Film Institute — Screenwriting Grant (Fiction Feature)

TV News Interviews
"How Are Mexican Migrant Communities Responding to Immigration Enforcement?" — UNIFE News, July 2026
"How can media help us rethink migration?" — Mirador Norteamericano, TV UNAM, May 2026 · on Y sin embargo se mueve
"How are Hollywood and the Mexican film industry shaping each other?" — Hola News, Estrella TV, September 2023

Let’s start writing a story together.

What story are you trying to get right?

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