Paloma Valenzuela

Paloma Valenzuela is a Dominican-American screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker originally from Boston. She is the creative director of the production company La Palomita Productions and was the writer, producer, and creator of the comedic web series “The Pineapple Diaries.” The show was featured in the Latina magazine’s “5 Web Series Every Latinx Needs to Watch Right Now.” She is a 2018-2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Neighborhood Salon Luminary and in 2020 – 2021 directed an eight-episode video series for the museum called the “Luminary Lens Series.” She is a 2019 City of Boston Artist Fellow and was chosen for the WBUR’s Artery 25 in 2019. In 2019 she won for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy at the Iris Dominicana Movie Awards for her role as Lolita in the Dominican film Un 4to de Josué which streamed on HBOMax. She taught screenwriting as a Lecturer in English at Brandeis University and the Fast Forward Film Program at the Institute of Contemporary Art. In May 2024, her documentary film The Seltzer Factorypremiered as an official selection at Cinefest Latino Boston. In 2025, Paloma began curating her film series “Now Playing” with JustBook-ish, for which she is a grant recipient of the 2025 City of Boston Opportunity Fund and the 2025 Collective Future’s Fund.