Angelik Laboy Torres is a Puerto Rican filmmaker from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, whose work excavates the stories her island was never meant to tell. Her films live in the space between memory and silence — portrait-driven, deeply personal, and built on the belief that the most invisible communities deserve the sharpest lens. Her short It's Different screened at the Cannes Film Festival representing the USA, and her VR short Ireti — a live-action and volumetric work confronting youth suicide — became Georgia Tech's first VR narrative film and reshaped the institution's film curriculum. Laboy approaches production the way she approaches everything: by building the tools that don't exist yet. With a background spanning The Walt Disney Studios, HBO Max, and Dolby Laboratories, she continuously reinvents how independent films get made — engineering custom workflows and production systems that bring the efficiency of a studio to a story that only the independent space could tell. Quimbara is her most urgent film yet.