HOW TO CLEAN A HOUSE IN 10 EASY STEPS
Documentary | 80 min | 2026 | US / Colombia / Mexico | Spanish, English

Moving fluidly between performance and reflection, the film imagines a world in which the director’s mother Beatriz, who came to the US to support her family in Colombia through domestic labor, is a best-selling author. Using that imagined book as its structure, mother and daughter build a playful, fragmented portrait of a life spent cleaning other people’s homes. The film explores immigration, invisible labor, and who gets to tell their own story.

Director Carolina González Valencia
Written by Carolina González Valencia, Beatriz Valencia
Featuring Beatriz Valencia
Producers Brenda Ávila-Hanna, Olga Segura
Executive Producers Ai-jen Poo, Alfonso Cuarón, Amanda Branson Gill, Ryan Gall, Juan Mejía Botero
Associate Producer Ana Karen Careaga
Cinematographer Gonzalo Escobar Mora
Editors Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Daniel Chávez Ontiveros
Composers Tálata Rodríguez, Mariano Di Cesare
Production Companies FromAway Productions, in association with Crooked Highways, El Parpadeo and Axolotl Films
With support from Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, LEF Foundation

Awards: Winner, Kirby Walker Documentary Award, San Francisco International Film Festival 2026

Festivals: True/False Film Fest 2026 (World Premiere, True Life Fund recipient) · San Francisco International Film Festival 2026 · LALIFF 2026 · Camden International Film Festival 2026

Website: fromawayfilms.com