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Marissa Chibás is a Cuban American writer/director who creates multi-platform work that traverse film and live audience experiences, reclaims the mythic, and celebrates immigrant stories. In 2022 she became a Sundance Screenwriting Fellow for her screenplay 1972 which is in post-production. 1972 was selected for the 2024 Gotham Week’s Project Market, the Wscripted Cannes Screenplay List, was an Athena Awards finalist, and received an inaugural Sundance/Gold House Artist Accelerator grant. Her proof of concept short, 72, premiered at the 2024 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, won an Excellence in Drama award at the Hispanic International Film Festival and the Best Cast award at Diversity in Cannes. Her films have screened at; Miami Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, The Segal Center, NFMLA, Fabrica de Arte in Havana, among others. Marissa’s path ranges from; performing on Broadway, to coaching professional wrestlers in the WWE, to becoming a #1 new release on Amazon for her book Mythic Imagination and the Actor. She has worked with luminaries such as; Edward Albee, Frances McDormand, Bobby Cannavale, and Sandra Oh to name a few. Her film, Finding Shelter, won best documentary short at the San Diego Latino Film Festival of 2019. Her filmmaking celebrates the beautiful confusion of human experience.