Private Project

TV Addict Alienations

This video showcase the relationship between Body, Performance and Space in an era of Media Control.

  • Maria Millan
    Director
    The Refuge
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video
  • Genres:
    Fashion, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 4, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Maria Millan

Maria Millan is a Venezuelan Director and Photographer based in London. She has been selected as part of ‘Talent Led: Next Gen’ by the Independent Film Trust (London, 2022) as one prominent Director & Writer among 4000 applications.

She holds a BA Honours in Communications Science and Media & a specialisation in Audio- Visual Arts from the Catholic University Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and a certification on Video Editing techniques from the famous International Film School of San Antonio de Los Baños in Cuba.

She started her journey in film & TV through the art department where she designed sets for TV ads for clients like L'Oreal, CVS, Mr Muscle, and Mac Donalds among others.

She moved to London in 2011 and began shooting stills for Vogue Italia, Cosmopolitan, Fruk Magazine, Funckin' 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 invited to have a solo screening and Q&A at the David Lynch's Private Members Club: Silencio.

Millan just completed the post-production of a 23 min documentary ‘TransCCS’ on the life of a transwoman in Caracas that she hopes to screen at festivals around the globe.

She is currently in the culmination stage of her first feature film ‘Queer Family Pride’, an LGBTQA+ documentary that she made during the lockdown while being trapped in Venezuela. It follows a black, gay, queer and drag guy raising three kids with his sister in Caracas during the pandemic.

She is also working on the development of her first feature fiction film: The Mirror.
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

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Director Statement

This film is my interpretation of our trajectory as humans. We went from hunting and picking up fruits to feed our bodies to being hungry for content.