Esteban Bailey

Esteban is an award winning Puerto Rican filmmaker. After graduating from NYU Tisch, Esteban joined several screenwriting fellowships such as the NYU Production Lab Development Studio and Sundance Ignite. His short film El Extraño en la Casa Rivera screened at several film festivals, including the Atlanta Film Festival where he won the "Filmmaker to Watch Award" and the 2023 Sundance Film Festival as part of the Ignite program. His screenplay "The Strange Monster at the Rivera House" has won several awards including the Michael Collyer Fellowship in Screenwriting and was featured on the Latinx List.

His second short, the horror comedy Ties, premiered at Fantaspoa 2023 in Porto Allegre, Brazil and screened at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and Winter Film Awards in NYC.

He has been a producer and script consultant on several feature length documentaries, while also working in digital media as a video editor. Esteban is committed to telling unique stories that highlight the complexities of the island of Puerto Rico.