C3: Fireside Duo: Reina Bonta and Anna Huix

Join us for a live chat reminiscent of our artist conversation series “21 & Over”, celebrating the creative partnerships and energies from artists in our communities. Filmmakers Reina Bonta (“Maybe It’s Just the Rain”) and Anna Huix (“Girls Move Mountains”) will go through questions that prompt their reflections and inspirations as creators — while also diving deeper into their short doc films from the opening night shorts program 30 FOR 30: COMING HOME.

Panelists:

Reina Bonta
Reina is an award-winning filmmaker from the Bay Area. Her directorial debut and Yale thesis, “LAHI”, toured Oscar-Qualifying festivals, won the audience award at San Diego Filipino Film Festival, and secured national distribution in 2024. Reina was an Archival Producer for “Judy Blume Forever” (World Premiere Sundance 2023), her photography has been featured in Forbes, and her writing published by ESPN. Also a professional soccer player, she represents the Philippines National Team.

Anna Huix
Anna Huix is a director and photographer who lived and worked in Paris, New York City and London. She graduated, with honours, at Parsons School Of Design in New York City. After living abroad for 12 years, she moved back to Barcelona, where she keeps on working for leading international publications and advertising firms. Her work has been exhibited in art spaces such as The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. She specializes in portraiture & travel.

Her editorial clients include The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Guardian, Sunday Times or The Telegraph amongst others. Her commercial clients range from Google and United Bank Of Switzerland to Visa, Airbnb or Nespresso.

Anna has worked in Pakistan several times. She finds the country and its people fascinating. She went to the Karakoram Mountains Range for the first time 13 years ago and fell in love with the area. Some other highlights in her career are creating work while sailing the Arctic or documenting Buzkashi in Tajikistan.