Chelo Alvarez-Stehle


Chelo Alvarez-Stehle is a Spanish-American journalist and documentary filmmaker. As a journalist, she worked as a Tokyo correspondent and for the El Mundo newspaper. As a documentary filmmaker she produced , winner of the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards by the Los Angeles Press Club for Best Feature Documentary.

Career

Alvarez-Stehle was born in Logroño, Spain. In the early 1990s, she lived in Japan, where she was the first editor of the weekly Spanish-language International Press, was a Tokyo correspondent for El Mundo, and worked for the NHK television network. She moved to California in 1995, settling in Malibu.
In 2016 she produced, with director Tim Nackashi, the short Through The Wall, about a family divided by the Mexico-United States border. The film was acquired by The Guardian and by Latino Public Broadcasting for PBS Digital Studios. It won the award for Best Web Series at the 31st Imagen Awards as well as a Social Impact Media Award.
Alvarez-Stehle's 2017 documentary about sex trafficking and exploitation, Sands of Silence, was her first feature-length film. It won the Best Documentary Award at the Malibu Film Festival and the Guayaquil International Film Festival in Ecuador. It was also named Best Documentary Feature by the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Awards.

Selected works

Documentary films