Directora Artistica
Artisic Director
Alex Flores

A Latin American Eco-feminist and social justice activist to the core is an independent visual artist and Film-maker, born in Mexico. Alex has worked in a variety of mediums: Acrylics, Wood, mosaics, and recyclable objects, she Graduated as a teacher in 1988, in Mexico City.
Alex moved to San Francisco California in 1989, where she learn carpentry, her furniture design has been showing in different galleries in Texas, San Francisco and Mexico city. Alex moved to Toronto Canada in the spring of 2001 and in 2003 she created Las Perlas del Mar Films Collective, a group of Hispanics that teach & produce films based on social and cultural issues. She is the Artisitic Director of Las Perlas del Mar Films, she writes, directs and edit in the present time, Alex also teaches workshops in how produce a movie from start to finish.
Alex paintings has been show in different galleries in Toronto and magazines front pages.
Alex film & videos has been show in several Interantional Film Ferstivals in Toronto, United States, Europe, Mexico and Asia.

alex@lasperlasdelmarfilms.com
www.alexarte.com

Silvia Méndez
Free-lance Journalist

Silvia Mˆ©ndez is a Mexican Journalist and Communications Analyst.
She was formerly Director of Media and Public Relations for Grupo MPI, and Editor-in Chief of 4 publications for Editorial Campus Tierra, in Mexico City. Now she is CEO of Tandem Media & Communications Ltd., a Communications and Public Relations agency, and Spanish Translator-in Chief at Esprit International, in Toronto.
As a Journalist and Correspondent, she writes for periodical publications in Canada, United States, Mexico and Spain, and is the Editor-in Chief of Living Fashion Magazine.

Silvia has interviewed personalities such as Juan Carlos, King of Spain, Stephen Harper, Paul Martin, Rigoberta Menchú, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Carlos Fuentes, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Alan García, Vicente Fox, Shakira, Britney Spears, Nicolas Cage, Pierce Brosnan and Sandra Bullock, among others.

silvia@lasperlasdelmarfilms.com

Sahira Coss

Photography and Camera-woman
Design is her passion and her job. She studied Publicity and Image in
Saltillo, Coahuila, México. After graduating from Instituto de
Comunicación Grafica del Norte she has worked in different agencies in
Mexico, United States and Canada. Currently, she co-directs Circus, a
graphic design and publicity agency in Toronto.
With her camera, she has developed over the years a close and
instinctive relationship with images and light. Now, in Las Perlas del
Mar Noticias she uses video as an instrument of exploration and
expression.
She is a passionate promoter of women empowerment. Currently, she is
the public relationist of Mujeres al Frente, a group devoted to assist
women from Mexico, Center and South America who live in Canada.