Yaél Bermudez is a producer, writer, and curator from Queens, New York. Her work tells and champions stories centered around complex characters tussling with metamorphic self-discovery. She is a graduate from Boston University’s College of Communication with a bachelor’s degree in Film & Television. Her professional experience ranges across television, independent feature film, commercials, music videos, and live events. Yaél’s experience extends internationally where she assisted on commercial shoots in Sydney, Australia and produced a short film Confirmation in Accra, Ghana. Yaél has produced narrative short films that have premiered at Toronto Black, Black Harvest, New York African, Bushwick Film Festivals and more. She holds collaboration at the core of everything she does. Yaél is currently a third-year Creative Producing MFA candidate and Bridges Larson Fellow at Columbia University.