Melisa Miranda

Filmes

Ramona
Editor
Preparing for a role, an actress holds conversations with pregnant young girls. Throughout the process, the girls lay out the stories of their own lives on camera, changing the course of the production of the film.
So Filthy and So Happy
Editor
Hija de Perra was a transvestite artist who would become an icon of dissidence and a benchmark for Latin American underground, after she died in 2014. Multiple intimate and unpublished audiovisual footage, captured by her filmmaker best friend, reveal how this character came about. She experimented in music and film, wrote texts for the academy, and turned his cross-dressing into a political action, questioning gender and sexual identity.
It Runs in the Family
Editor
A revelation about Oscar Torres, her unknown and once world-famous queer filmmaker cousin, sends Victoria down a path of self-discovery through reconstructions of his intimate memories living in the 1950's authoritarian Caribbean, as Victoria leads re-enactments of his unproduced screenplays with the family who erased him.
The Captives
Editor
Dimas and Isabel lived in Arica when new border limits were imposed between Peru and Chile, dividing their descendants. Their great-granddaughter searches for her identity, crossing the limits of her memory, family chronicles and official discourses that shape the history of both countries.
The Captives
Writer
Dimas and Isabel lived in Arica when new border limits were imposed between Peru and Chile, dividing their descendants. Their great-granddaughter searches for her identity, crossing the limits of her memory, family chronicles and official discourses that shape the history of both countries.
The Journey of Monalisa
Editor
After 17 years working as a street prostitute in New York City, undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa reunites with former college classmate Nicole, the director of this film. Through their creative bond, Monalisa re-flourishes as a transgender performer and writer, in the search for identity and legalization.
O Pacto de Adriana
Editor
A tia favorita de Lissette, Adriana, estabelecida na Austrália, é presa em 2007 enquanto visitava sua família no Chile e acusada de ter trabalhado para a notória polícia secreta do ditador Pinochet, a DINA, e de ter participado da comissão de crimes do Estado. Quando Adriana nega estas acusações, Lissette começa a investigar sua história para filmar um documentário sobre o assunto.
Andean Sheperdess
Editor
A journey through time, memory and experience of Aymara women of the Chilean Plateau, 4200 meters above sea level. Through their voices we'll present their points of view on Gabriela Blas, a local pastor imprisoned for the lost of her three years old son, while looking after her Llama herd. Days go by as we listen to their reflections on motherhood, life and death, in this abandoned land, were grazing Llamas and Alpacas is the sole breadwinner in a world in retreat, abandoned on the Andes mountains.
Grisalhos
Assistant Editor
Bruno, um arquiteto, começa a questionar-se sobre sua vida em meio a tantos sonhos. Durante essa crise, ele resolve viajar para Santiago sem retorno prévio. Lá conhece Fer, um professor de história com quem inicia um inesperado romance.
The Waltz of the Useless
Editor
The narration of two parallel stories tells the history of the student movement in Chile. A teenager immersed in the political climate of his school and a former prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship will find in the social mobilization the meaning of their own story.
Médula
Director
Three years ago my mother suffered a serious cerebral stroke. In two hours herself vanished in front of me facing me suddenly with a body in which she was not anymore. Médula is the journey in which I try to recover the lost image of a woman that I was never able to understand nor get to know and who, today, feels more undecipherable than ever.