Chelo Alvarez-Stehle Explained

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle
Birth Name:María Consolación Álvarez González
Birth Date:1957
Birth Place:Logroño, Spain
Occupation:Filmmaker, journalist and author

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle is a Spanish and American journalist and documentary filmmaker. In Japan, she worked as managing editor for International Press En Español weekly and as Tokyo correspondent for El Mundo daily. As a documentary filmmaker she is best known for Sands of Silence (Arenas de Silencio) [es], winner of the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards by the Los Angeles Press Club for Best Feature Documentary.

She was the recipient of the "Equality Award Teresa León Goyri - City of Logroño 2022" [1] highlighting the vital and professional career of Alvarez-Stehle as journalist, writer, filmmaker and women's rights advocate and, especially, her fight against sexual violence and trafficking. The award of the City of Logroño bears the name of the Spanish politician, writer and activist of the Generation of '27, María Teresa León Goyri, one of the so-called "Hatless Women," as a tribute and recognition of her social commitment and her literary work.

On June 30, 2023, she received the "2022 Human Rights Award" granted by the Observatory for Human Rights of the Government of La Rioja[2] for her life and professional career as a journalist, writer, filmmaker and activist in defense of human rights and women's rights; for the national and international projection of her fight against racism, sexual violence and trafficking; and for her continued work to contribute to guarantee human rights from culture and journalism. Her reports on child trafficking from Nepal to India for the magazine Planeta Humano in the documentary film 'Niñas de Hojalata' (Tin Girls) or for the feature documentary 'Arenas de Silencio' (Sands of Silence) stand out.[3]

Personal life

Alvarez-Stehle was born in Logroño, Spain.[4]  Daughter of Domingo Álvarez Ruiz de Viñaspre, surgeon and senator, and Consuelo González Oñate. In 2020, she married Mark Stehle (1948-2023,) an economist, who was also her film producing partner, and the son of artist Evelyn Stehle and theoretical physicist Philip Stehle. Their daughter Sangita Stehle is a neuroscience student.

Career

Alvarez-Stehle studied Medicine at University of Navarra and University of Zaragoza but dropped out.

In 1991, she was awarded the EEC's Executive Training Programme (ETP) in Japan [5] [6] fellowship and moved to Tokyo. She then worked for NHK Enterprises in the development of documentary films and as managing editor of International Press en español,[7] [8] Japan’s first Spanish weekly. In 1994, she became Tokyo's correspondent for Spain's El Mundo daily.[9] In 1995, Chelo moved to California, settling in Malibu and continued to contribute to El Mundo and other media outlets such as Geo and Planeta Humano, specializing in social and women’s issues.

In 2002, she became an American Translators Association certified translator (English into Spanish). She has worked as a translator and a copy editor to support her creative work. Her book translation and editing includes museum guides for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2005, she edited the Spanish edition of Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium. Pope John Paul II, Rizzoli.

In 2003, Canal+ (Spanish satellite broadcasting company) turned her first reportage on child trafficking in the Himalayas for Planeta Humano magazine into the documentary film Tin Girls (Niñas de Hojalata, 2003) for which Alvarez-Stehle was interviewer, assistant director and consultant.

In 2006, Alvarez-Stehle produced/directed The Power of 2, a short documentary on Cubans' thirst for inner peace, which has been distributed in over 30 countries. In 2009, she produced/directed Sold in America: A Modern-Day Tale of Sex Slavery, a short documentary on sex trafficking that premiered at the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival.[10]

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[11] and by Latino Public Broadcasting for PBS Digital Studios.[12] It won the award for Best Web Series at the 31st Imagen Awards[13] as well as a Social Impact Media Award.[14]

In 2016, she produced her first feature-length documentary, Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage, a film that addresses the full spectrum of sexual violence, from child sexual abuse and priest abuse to sexual assault and sex trafficking. The film was executive produced by her husband Mark Stehle and by philanthropist and author Deirdre Roney. The film's team of editors includes Academy Award-winner Kate Amend. It received multiple awards in the Americas and Europe. Alvarez-Stehle has presented it at over 25 film festivals across continents, at multiple universities such as Oxford and Yale, at Bar Associations in the US and Europe, at women's organizations, and in prisons to sexual violence offenders.[15] [16] [17]

Alvarez-Stehle's 2017 documentary about sex trafficking and exploitation, Sands of Silence, was her first feature-length film.[18] In 2018, the Los Angeles Press Club held a screening and Q&A of the film moderated by Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times.[19]

Presented in 2017 at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the United Nations, New York, along with Equality Now[20] and UN Women.

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the PES Women (Party of European Socialists) invited the director to present the film at the European Parliament.[21] Broadcast on RTVE's "La noche temática" show on November 25, 2017, under its Spanish title "Arenas de Silencio", also on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

In 2018, the Los Angeles Press Club organized a presentation and discussion of Sands of Silence moderated by journalist Patt Morrison of The Los Angeles Times.[22]

In 2021, South African publisher Quinton van der Burgh Media,[23] publishes the portrait book 100 Making A Difference, an initiative of Hollywood photographer John Russo, featuring one hundred people and organizations leading social projects, from celebrities like George Clooney, to activists like Malala Yousafzai, and including among them Chelo Alvarez-Stehle and Virginia Isaías, protagonist of the documentary Arenas of Silence and founder of the Survivors of Human Trafficking Foundation.

In 2022, the book Las semillas de Atenea - Historias de Mujeres Brillantes 2,[24] published by the Concejalía de Igualdad del Ayuntamiento de Logroño, dedicates a chapter, written by Pío García Tricio and illustrated by Andrea Acedo Bueno, to Chelo Alvarez-Stehle's work as a documentary filmmaker focusing on her documentary Sands of Silence (Arenas de Silencio).

Selected works

Documentary films

New media

Books

Book translation & editing

(2005) (Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium. Pope John Paul II, Rizzoli). Editing.  .

Awards

Human Rights

Equality

Journalism

Film

Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage" Feature-length documentary. Spanish title: Arenas de Silencio: Olas de Valor.

"Through the Wall". Short Documentary. Spanish title: "A través del muro".

Notes and References

  1. News: 2022-12-20 . Hermoso de Mendoza entrega el Premio de Igualdad al IES Cosme García y a la periodista Chelo Álvarez-Stehle . La Vanguardia . 2022-12-25.
  2. News: Rioja 2 . June 30, 2023 . Chelo Álvarez-Stehle, la asociación Siemprevivas y la Asociación Color ganan los premios de Derechos Humanos . La Rioja . July 14, 2023.
  3. News: La Rioja . Europa Press . June 30, 2023 . Chelo Álvarez-Stehle, 'Siemprevivas' y 'Color', premios Derechos Humanos de La Rioja . EuropaPress . July 14, 2023.
  4. Web site: Sanchis. Ima. February 18, 2017. El abuso sexual es una pandemia. June 10, 2020. La Vanguardia. es.
  5. Martínez Garín, Charo (March 28, 1991). «Chelo Alvarez gets one of the two fellowship the EEC grants Spain to train experts in the Japanese market». [In Spanish] El Correo Español. El Pueblo Vasco (Rioja).
  6. July 1992. «Spanish Executives are trained in Tokyo». [In Spanish] DINERO (473): 76.
  7. Web site: InternationalPress.es. August 17, 2020. International Press - Noticias de Japón en español. es.
  8. Book: Tinajero, Araceli. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan. Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. 978-3-030-64487-1. Switzerland. 65, 245. English.
  9. Rubio, Pilar (February 7, 1993). «Chelo Álvarez, the first Rioja woman selected by the EEC to work in Japan also works for NHK-TV». [In Spanish]. La Rioja.
  10. Web site: August 13, 2010. Sold in America. August 13, 2020. TheMarginalized.com. en.
  11. News: Nackashi. Tim. Alvarez-Stehle. Chelo. March 29, 2016. Through the wall: A family divided by the US-Mexico border – video. The Guardian. December 17, 2019.
  12. Web site: Through the Wall. August 13, 2020. Latino Public Broadcasting; PBS Indies.
  13. Web site: September 9, 2016. Winners of 31st Annual Imagen Awards Announced. December 17, 2019. Imagen Awards. Beverly Hills, CA.
  14. Web site: Through The Wall Student Choice Award. January 5, 2020. Social Media Impact Awards.
  15. Web site: Times. Suzanne Guldimann / Special to The Malibu. Malibu Film Festival to Feature Local Films. August 13, 2020. Malibu Times. en. December 3, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191203230139/http://www.malibutimes.com/malibu_life/article_cf52742e-a0da-11e6-97ee-3bed9abe04c4.html. dead.
  16. Web site: 59th SoCal Journalism Awards Winners Announced – Los Angeles Press Club. 26 June 2017 . August 13, 2020. en-US.
  17. Web site: Winners of 31st Annual Imagen Awards Announced. August 13, 2020. Imagen Foundation. en-US.
  18. Web site: Guldimann. Suzanne. Malibu Film Festival to Feature Local Films. August 13, 2020. Malibu Times. en. December 3, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191203230139/http://www.malibutimes.com/malibu_life/article_cf52742e-a0da-11e6-97ee-3bed9abe04c4.html. dead.
  19. Web site: SANDS OF SILENCE: Waves of Courage Screening. August 13, 2020. Los Angeles Press Club. 28 April 2018 . en-US.
  20. Web site: 2017 Calendar Of Events. August 14, 2020. Equality Now. en.
  21. Web site: S&D Film Screening: Sands of Silence. August 14, 2020. Socialists & Democrats. 21 November 2017 . en.
  22. Web site: Press Club . Los Angeles . August 4, 2021 . "SANDS OF SILENCE: Waves of Courage" Screening . October 9, 2022 . Los Angeles Press Club.
  23. News: July 21, 2021 . SA billionaire Quinton van der Burgh publishes new book '100 Making a Difference' . Current Affairs ZA . October 9, 2022.
  24. Book: Esther, Pío, Andrea, Pascual Rosel, García Tricio, Acedo Bueno . La semilla de atenea - Historias de mujeres brillantes 2 . Biblioteca Riojana . 2022 . 978-84-123356-6-8 . Logroño, Spain . 59–63 . ES.
  25. Web site: 2010-12-18. La voz de las esclavas del siglo XXI. August 13, 2020. La Rioja. es-ES.
  26. Web site: Sold in America & Sands of Silence. December 17, 2019. www.calcasa.org.
  27. Web site: October 10, 2011. A LOOK INSIDE: Occupy LA Opens Its Tents. December 17, 2019. HuffPost. Los Angeles. en.
  28. News: Gómez. Lula. November 15, 2016. Una invitación a romper el silencio. es. El País. December 17, 2019.
  29. News: Nackashi. Tim. March 29, 2016. Through the wall: a family divided by the US-Mexico border – video. en-GB. The Guardian. December 17, 2019.
  30. News: Gómez. Lula. November 15, 2016. Una invitación a romper el silencio. es. El País. August 13, 2020. 1134-6582.
  31. Web site: Iturbe. Antonio. Montse Watkins: La luna del Sol Naciente. August 13, 2020. Revista Librujula. es-es.
  32. Web site: November 19, 2019. Rinden homenaje en Barcelona a la periodista y traductora Montse Watkins. August 13, 2020. La Vanguardia. es.
  33. Web site: Jordan. Bibi. January 4, 2012. Working to change human trafficking. August 13, 2020. Malibu Times. en. December 21, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191221213402/http://www.malibutimes.com/malibu_life/article_a7b74c10-f5aa-5c1b-a7b5-e366d52b6207.html. dead.
  34. Web site: Resultados de búsqueda para: 'Periodismo y Derechos Humanos' . August 13, 2020 . www.diegomarin.com.
  35. Book: Hiriart Tirone, Fernando. Tras los pasos de Montse Watkins. August 13, 2020.
  36. Web site: SANDS OF SILENCE: Waves of Courage Screening – Los Angeles Press Club. 28 April 2018 . August 14, 2020. en-US.
  37. Web site: Festival del Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste 2020. November 24, 2020. www.cinelatinotrieste.org.
  38. Web site: 2018-06-04. Porto Femme 18′ Winners. August 14, 2020. Porto Femme. en-US.
  39. Web site: Women's International Film & Television Showcase. August 14, 2020. thewifts.org.

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