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Biography

Noelia Quintero Herencia is a filmmaker, multimedia artist, and researcher with over 25 years of experience in media production and cultural research. She is the creator of “Prohibido Olvidar,” the most extensive documentary series on popular culture broadcast by Puerto Rico’s public television. The series forms a vital archive of Puerto Rican cultural history, offering in-depth portraits of key figures such as Tite Curet Alonso, Miriam Colón, Pedro Pietri, Héctor Lavoe, and Myrna Báez.

Her work has earned four Emmy Awards—three Suncoast Emmys and one New York Emmy—and her 2020 feature film “Papi” received both the Dominican Premio Soberano and Best Feature Film at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Santiago. Since moving to New York in 2021, she directed Puerto Rican Voices (Season 5, Episode 2) and the Emmy-winning “Tito Matos: ¡Ahora Sí!” (2022). In 2023, wrote and directed the performance “Tu nombre verdadero” reviewed by The New York Times, and two of her video works were featured in the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art’s exhibition “Indecencia.”

Currently, she is a Research Associate at the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute. Quintero Herencia is completing “No es extraño este sitio para la danza,” an open archival video installation exploring the intertwined histories of Latinx communities in New York City.