Maria Millan is a Venezuelan Director, Producer and Photographer. She has been selected to participate in the Hessen Lab with the rough cut of her feature film documentary 'Family Pride, Queer Aside'. The lab is part of the B3 Biennale to be celebrated in Frankfurt, Germany in October 2022.
She is also part of the scheme ‘Talent Led: Next Gen’ by the Independent Film Trust (London, 2022) where she is working on the pitch of her two fiction screenplays: 'The Mirror' and 'The Hollow Women'.
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 from the famous International Film School of 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 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 and is currently in the culmination stage of her feature film ‘Family Pride, Queer Aside’, an LGBTQA+ documentary that she made during the lockdown while being trapped in Venezuela.
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
Projects
- The Refuge, a film by Maria Millan featuring Demi Hannah ScottThe Refuge tells the story of a women’s aid centre where we find four girls living in an isolated fortress gatehouse forced to take an antidepressant treatment. The film is a protest to the current crisis that these institutions are facing due to government cuts. It shows how women are being marginalized instead of being included into society. Maria Millan is a London based Image Maker originally from Venezuela. She is known for her amazing storytelling in her editorials, normally charged with
- The Girls“The Girls” is a story about two teenage sisters living in isolation, never leaving their home because of their over-protective parents. The girls are confined to a desolate country estate that could very well be on another planet. It’s almost a palace, an enormous mansion where they’re home-schooled and taught that the outside world is dangerous and one must never go outside. Nevertheless that is exactly what the girls crave; to see, to live, to know what is out there but they’re absolutely not prepared and have no idea what to expect. They live in constant fear and frustration mixed with desire.
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Work history
Photographer, Videomaker and Set Designer
Freelance
I create images, video, from the concept until each one of the props that appear on my shots. I also love to walk around and capture those moments that seen to be stills from a movie.
Production Designer
- Freelance
Design, create and dress the sets for the film: Chop Chop directed by Christopher Granier Deferre.
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Skills
- Fashion
- Film
- Marketing PR
- Visual Arts
- Art Direction
- Art Photography
- Music Videos
- Editing
- Design
- Editorial
- Indesign
- Advertisement
- Set Designer
- Producer Project Manager Broadcasting London
Education
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Mass Media and Audiovisual ArtsCatholic University Andres Bello (UCAB)
- Caracas, Venezuela
5 years of communication theories, literature, media, advertisement, film, TV and radio production, direction and management.
Awards
Creatives Rising
Maria Millan had 3 of her stills projected on buildings in New York, and also as part of a gallery exhibition within an event called Creatives Rising, sponsored by PNG Magazine.
https://www.see.me/risingThe Story of Creativity
Maria Millan had 3 of her photographs exhibited on The Story of Creativity, sponsored by PNG Magazine. New York- USA. July/ October 2013
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