Film
Reel
2022 Nomination: Fiction Long Form Student Production
Directing a team of wonderful 64 creatives, I am bringing to the screen the story of Liliana, a latina immigrant, who realizes her concept of American High Schools isn't what she has seen in film.
CINCO
YOU'RE LISTENING
TO "FIELD OF HORSES by
JOSEPH BEG"
GROWING INDOORS
The emergence of Covid has affected our lives heavily. This short film examines how an artist would cope with the desperation of wanting to express herself, feel the connection of nature, feel movement, feel the connection with humans.
This film shows how desperately we need the imagination, the arts, the music and the human connection to keep growing, even if we must do it indoors this time.
One may think access to arts is an escape, but it is life, in itself; it is necessity in itself.
PIANO Juan Sebastian Lasso
BASS Andres Silva
CHORUS
Daniel Alfonso Marín
Carlos Jr. Diaz
SOUND MIX & MASTERING
Varele Studio Veracruz Mexico
VOICE ACTORS
John Andrucci
Kelly Bailey
Chris Carpentier
Jasmine Currey Lonergan
Barbara Alexandra
Rahul Saggu
DIRECTOR María Primera Darwich
CAMERA OPERATOR
SONG "Aguanile" Written by
Hector Perez & Willie Colon
ORQUESTRA
SINGER
Carlos Jr Diaz
TROMBONES Carlos Jr Diaz
Alejandro Varela
CONGAS, BONGOES
CAMPANA, TIMBAL
Miel y Limón
Miel y Limon, meaning in Spanish "Honey & Lemon”, is a short film made during quarantine that touches on the pressure a designer & filmmaker feels in trying to be the best artist she can become.
The perspective of her thinking changes once she actually stops to listen to the valuable words of her mother (not present physically, but very present in heart & mind).
This is my personal story on how even though I haven’t lived with my mother for half of my life (due to the crisis in my country, that forced me to move out quite young) she truly always finds a way to be present in my life, and to appear, in the most unlikely of places to remind me of my strength, and to once again, give me the instructions to the recipe of life: Miel y Limón.
Her words have been recorded from a real life phone call I had with her during stressful times of the quarantine in 2020.
DIRECTOR EDITOR María Primera Darwich
CAMERA OPERATOR
Selah Kwon
Maria Primera Darwich
VOICE NARRATION Alexandra Darwich
*This project is the sole property of Walt Disney Imagineering and all rights to use these ideas are exclusive to Walt Disney Imagineering.
Savannah Chora for
This short film screened in Disney's headquarters in California.
My team and I were finalists of the Disney Imaginations competition, where we were one of the 20 artists chosen from 1500 applicants to fly to California to present our concept.
As team lead & writer, I used my skills in directing and experiential design to present this concept to Disney Executives. Our team is very grateful to the Girl Scout Troupe of Historic Georgia for participating in this short film.
*Photos from award ceremony in the Disney Imaginations campus, January 2020
DIRECTOR , PRODUCER, EDITOR María Primera Darwich
WRITERS Kristen Nicolais
Maria Primera Darwich
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Chen du
1st AC Praboo Ariva
2nd AC Constance Dzikowski
CAST Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia
MOTION MEDIA Haosong Chen
The 99th day
I spent my summer in Spain, where one of the strictest lockdowns has been enforced since the pandemic started.
One day I wondered how are kids handling the lockdowns..
Does it make them more creative? more thoughtful?
This is a short documentary style film that focuses on the story of Nuria, a Spanish 10 year old, that discovered the lockdowns only sparked more curiosity for her, but it also
made her realize what truly matters and what she truly missed.
Everything changed for her on the 99th day.
DIRECTOR , PRODUCER, EDITOR María Primera Darwich
CAST: Nuria Tapies
Elisenda
FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
This is you
Everyone has a question in their life, to which they haven't found an answer.
What if you were given a box with the answer? Would you take it?
