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Monica Villamizar is three-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker and TV correspondent. She directed and produced the documentary “Transition” about an Australian journalist who embeds with the Taliban while undergoing gender transition. The film Premiered at Tribeca 2023 and was selected for IDFA’s Best of Festivals category.

Villamizar recently produced the Peacock documentary “El Chapo’s Wife: The Emma Coronel Story” which ranked among the five most-streamed titles in the US and Mexico for 4 consecutive weeks and is also carried by HBO Max.

She produced Showtime’s powerful docu-series “The Trade” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She was also a producer on the award-winning National Geographic documentary “The First Wave”.

She is a special correspondent for the PBS Newshour and Al Jazeera Fault Lines, and has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Mali, Congo DRC, Mexico, El Salvador and Haiti, at times filming directly on the front lines. She has gained exclusive access to cartels and smugglers, in Colombia, Mexico and Central America. In September 2019, she reported on an experimental Ebola vaccine and was a subject of the trial led by Dr Anthony Fauci. She covered the Ebola outbreak of Eastern Congo DRC until her team and WHO doctors were forced to evacuate after coming under attack by rebel militias.

In her attempts to tell truthful, hard-hitting stories, Monica has been targeted by the Egyptian military which raided her office in Cairo and arrested her colleagues. While reporting in Venezuela the Government, unhappy with her stories, falsely accused her of being a spy. This led to a The New York Times editorial board supporting her work and denouncing the country’s regime. Monica is an active member of the Frontline Freelance Register which protects and promotes the integrity of freelance conflict reporters all over the world.

the editorial board of the New York Times backed Monica as a reporter, denouncing the Maduro Government.