Samantha Berlanga is a Puerto Rican–Ecuadorian American writer, director, and cinematographer from Queens, New York. She is currently based in San Francisco, where she is a second-year SFFILM Artist in Residence and youth mentor. Through the residency, she is developing her debut feature documentary, Pleasure Seekers, an intergenerational portrait of women reclaiming pleasure, agency, and connection in defiance of cultural repression.