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THALIA
TYPE: Narrative Short
GENRE: Drama
STATUS: Pre-Production
LOGLINE
On the eve of AJ's departure, they seek out Thalia in a final effort to rewrite the ending to their failed romance.
SYNOPSIS
A year after their turbulent break-up, AJ and Thalia meet up for a drink. AJ reveals that they’re moving back to NY, which sets off feelings in Thalia that she thought were long gone. AJ also makes a final request: one more night together before they go.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
In January 2024, I started a conversation with myself that became the dialogue for a short script called THALIA. Intentionally titled after one of the nine muses of Apollo, Thalia, the goddess of poetry and comedy, it became a repository for how I’ve been feeling as an unemployed screenwriter, an artist who’s part of an industry that’s changing and some even say dying.
KEY CREW
Mar Angélica Molina - writer/director/producer
Mar Angélica Molina (she/they) creates myth-inspired antiheroes inside juicy, soapy worlds meant to entertain and/or scandalize their immigrant mother. Credits include co-producer on ANNE RICE’S MAYFAIR WITCHES for AMC, story-editor on FANTASY ISLAND for Fox, staff writer on ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA for Showtime and on PARTY OF FIVE for ABC/Freeform. Mar is a 2021 AFI Directing Workshop for Women fellow, a Tribeca Institute 2020 Through Her Lens fellow, a 2018 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow and a 2017 Sundance New Voices Lab fellow. Short films include: FERNANDA (2021), which screened at Frameline, Outfest, NewFest and Provincetown FF, et.al.; VALENTINA (2018), which was licensed by HBO and aired globally. She also wrote, produced and directed the comedy web-series DICHOS (2019). Mar was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and raised in Queens, NY. They are based out of Brooklyn and LA.
Juliet Berman - producer
Valeria Lopez - producer
Juliana Joel - Thalia
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