Veronica Robledo

The rising awareness for diversity and the growing movement in support of women-led and female-driven films, Veronica Robledo takes the initiative through her storytelling. Women have unique life experiences, and those experiences inform their stories and the lens through which they view the world. Veronica optioned the book, The Crickets Dance, developed and wrote the screenplay and, in 2019, she directed and produced what would be her first feature film. The Crickets Dance concerns, Angie Lawrence, an attorney and southern beauty. If she ever hopes to find love she needs to do two things: let a man walk her to the door and let go of the past. She sadly gets the opportunity to do both when her dear friend passes away and leaves her a stunning southern antebellum mansion. While moving in she discovers a long-forgotten diary hidden in the attic. It dates back over 150 years. She becomes entranced with diary's story, its history of slavery and brutality, and how the bounds of time and i