Aurora Docs
IS BORN FROM THE DESIRE TO TELL STORIES,
from the dream to exclusively devote our journey to creating content, observing, exploring, inquiring into the human experience, and narrating from the sacred view of the authors. So that the public when consuming the content can give their perspectives and generate dialogues, reflections, and awareness.
WHERE DOES AURORA DOCS WANT TO GO?
TO THE CONSTANT AND CONSISTENT CREATION OF AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT THAT IS ENTERTAINING AND HONORS LIFE,
to being the best storyteller that she can be, to center narratives from women in a universal and accessible way, to center the stories of healthy masculinities, to create a public that resonates with these stories so that they become her best co-producer.
KAREN ROSSI
Founder & Executive Producer
Documentary filmmaker, writer, director, editor, medicine woman, and mother. My earliest memories of loving being a storyteller take me to H street in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where our neighbors would sit in their balconies and listen to my joke telling. I’m the youngest of eight siblings, amongst whom I learned to raise my voice. In 1996, I graduated from Tufts University in Medford, MA, with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations focused on Latin America and a minor in Italian. My first job was as a financial journalist in New York City. In 1998, I began my career in the film industry as a production assistant at Inskip Productions and then worked as a freelancer. Eventually, I was assistant editor for the film Y tu Mamá También.
Amongst the films that I’ve written and directed are Ser Grande (When I grow up…), a feature documentary film (2018); Isla Chatarra (Scrap Island), winner of an EMMY [Suncoast] (2008); Alguien Cuida tu Morada (The grave guardian), a short documentary film (2020); Machuchaleras, a short documentary film (2020).
In recent years I’ve been studying screenplay writing with the Guionarte method. I am trilingual, fluent in Spanish, English, and Italian. I am a founding member of the Documentary Film Association in Puerto Rico (AdocPR). I love to be a mother, and when my two sons were kids, I enjoyed having the car full of boys while taking them to their basketball and soccer games. I am a versatile woman, a lover of culture. I enjoy weaving my biological motherhood with creative filmmaking.
ERIKA MURCIA
Website Editor & Creative Collaborator
Medicine Woman, multiracial Storyteller, Poet, and editor. Daughter of Mesoamerican diaspora. Co-author of the anthology Mamahood Sovereignty a collection of essays on how womxn embody our Creativity. I have directed and co-created fundraising projects with diverse grassroots women and youth collectives in rural & urban settings in the Americas for 18 years. Since 2022, I am a co-creator of the Storytelling Committee at the Community-Centric Fundraising Global Council.
I created the Sanadora Práctica Creativa classroom honoring Native Mesoamerican teachings to support people's healing journeys through Breastfeeding their Creative Praxis. I am a member of the Untold Stories of Liberation & Love, a collective that amplifies and generates local women of color’s creative courage in Michigan. As a human, I enjoy dancing, hugging trees, and drinking high-quality coffee. In 2017, I earned a master’s in social work from the University of Michigan, where I was a Community-Based Initiative scholar in Detroit. Between 2018 and 2021, I was a Center for the Education of Women (CEW+) Scholar Community Advisory Board member.