Monica Villamizar is a Colombian-American filmmaker and TV correspondent. Most recently selected as a member of the 2025 Snarky Elephant Cohort, Monica 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 Sheffield Documentary Festival 2023.
 

She was a producer on the Nat Geo documentary “The First Wave” directed by Matthew Heineman, about New York’s biggest Covid-19 Hospital, which won the 2022 EMMY for Best Documentary. Monica also produced the Showtime series The Trade (Season Two) on Human Trafficking and Immigration, which premiered at The Sundance 2020 Film Festival, and was recently nominated for 4 EMMYs including best documentary. As a journalist she has won 2 EMMYS and has traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Mali, Congo DRC, Mexico, El Salvador and Haiti and other countries, at times filming directly on the front lines. Monica has covered the drug wars in Colombia and Mexico, gaining exclusive access to cartels and smugglers. She covered the Arab spring, the war against ISIS in Iraq and the advance of jihadism in West Africa. 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 came under attack by rebel militias.