Maria Millan is a Queer Venezuelan Director, Producer and Writer based in London. She participated in the Hessen Lab with her screenplays ‘The Mirror’ & ‘The Hollow Women’. The lab was part of an invitation to the B3 Biennale celebrated in Frankfurt, Germany the past October.
She is also part of the scheme ‘Talent Led: Next Gen’ by the Independent Film Trust (London, 2022) where she is being prepared to pitch the same screenplays to networks next January 2023.
She holds a BA Honours in Communications Science and Media and a specialisation in Audio-Visual Arts from the Catholic University Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. She also went to study Video Editing techniques at the famous International Film School in San Antonio de Los Baños in Cuba (EICTV).
She started her journey in film & TV through the art department where she designed sets for TV ads back in Caracas. She moved to London in 2011 and began shooting stills for Vogue Italia, Cosmopolitan, Fruk Magazine, Fuckin' Young, Jute, Eclectic Magazine among others. She led the Production Design for the film "Chop Chop" (2016) by Christopher Granier-Deferre. She also produced a TV Series called "Las Aventuras de Sifo Diaz".
She directed actress Lujza Richter Hugo (Phantom Thread, Dracula), and Demi Hannah Scott (SHOWstudio) in her film "The Refuge", part of the official selection of The Women’s Film Festival in the US, L’Etrange Film Festival in Paris, and winner of “Best Short” in the Social Machinery Film Festival in Italy. Millan was also invited to have a solo screening and Q&A at the David Lynch's Private Members Club: Silencio. The Refuge is now available on Amazon and in many SVOD platforms around the globe.
Her latest 23 min documentary ‘TransCCS’ premiered in the 33rd edition of the Tampa Bay International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on the 8th of October in Tampa, Florida.
She just completed her first feature film documentary: ‘Family Pride, Queer Aside’ and is looking for distributors.
Maria Millan is an example of resilience and perseverance. She aims with her work to call attention to the role of women and the LGBTQ+ community within society.
@mariamillanart
www.mariamillan.com
She is also part of the scheme ‘Talent Led: Next Gen’ by the Independent Film Trust (London, 2022) where she is being prepared to pitch the same screenplays to networks next January 2023.
She holds a BA Honours in Communications Science and Media and a specialisation in Audio-Visual Arts from the Catholic University Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. She also went to study Video Editing techniques at the famous International Film School in San Antonio de Los Baños in Cuba (EICTV).
She started her journey in film & TV through the art department where she designed sets for TV ads back in Caracas. She moved to London in 2011 and began shooting stills for Vogue Italia, Cosmopolitan, Fruk Magazine, Fuckin' Young, Jute, Eclectic Magazine among others. She led the Production Design for the film "Chop Chop" (2016) by Christopher Granier-Deferre. She also produced a TV Series called "Las Aventuras de Sifo Diaz".
She directed actress Lujza Richter Hugo (Phantom Thread, Dracula), and Demi Hannah Scott (SHOWstudio) in her film "The Refuge", part of the official selection of The Women’s Film Festival in the US, L’Etrange Film Festival in Paris, and winner of “Best Short” in the Social Machinery Film Festival in Italy. Millan was also invited to have a solo screening and Q&A at the David Lynch's Private Members Club: Silencio. The Refuge is now available on Amazon and in many SVOD platforms around the globe.
Her latest 23 min documentary ‘TransCCS’ premiered in the 33rd edition of the Tampa Bay International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival on the 8th of October in Tampa, Florida.
She just completed her first feature film documentary: ‘Family Pride, Queer Aside’ and is looking for distributors.
Maria Millan is an example of resilience and perseverance. She aims with her work to call attention to the role of women and the LGBTQ+ community within society.
@mariamillanart
www.mariamillan.com
