LOOK AT ME. New remote professor of Film and Screenwriting at the University of New Haven, Connecticut. Based in Los Angeles, CA. Film director and writer. Grappling with light and shadows, my body of work is extensive and draws upon expressionism to transport viewers into dreams come to life. Awarded screenwriter. The Incredible Hulk. First-time feature-length filmmaker. Sundance alum long ago. Migdia Chinea — I’m a force of nature in Hollywood. “When it rains...” (80 mins. 2021). https://www.linkedin.com/in/migdia-skarsgård-chinea-23b2b524/

Filming on a zero budget is about the creativity to shoot, make decisions, ignore obstacles, persist to completion and move on to the next. Each obstacle brings new opportunities but mainly each obstacle brings obstacles..

Sisu is my middle name -- it's a uniquely Finnish concept that can be applied to anyone and translates as strength of will, determination, perseverance, and acting rationally in the face of adversity. Sisu is not momentary courage, but the ability to sustain that courage.

I have sisu.

https://vimeo.com/595074058/12109bec2b

Migdia Skarsgård Chinea’s director’s reel. One minute.
https://vimeo.com/509338377

Logo Ciboney Productions 20 secs. https://vimeo.com/ 322544037

I’m my father’s daughter. WGAW. TV Academy, UCLA MFA TFT ‘12

Hollywood and academia faculties are a challenge — no Hispanics especially women. Not a single paid Latina director in the whole country. The Hollywood establishment set up virtue signaling programs (especially Hollywood behind-the-cameras decision-making positions) designed to keep you forever a neophyte in a never-ending process. But the paltry numbers don’t lie — as decades go by, these elites revel in their ignorance —a couple of examples, the remake of “West Side Story” didn’t have a single behind-the-camera Hispanic woman in it, except maybe as help. “Jurassic Park” didn’t have a single Central American originally and none thirty years later. University faculty rosters — especially in film — contain no Hispanic names. And on and on…