mal de ojo
A teenager challenges her South American relative over the family's bad luck, causing her to seek escape in another’s private world.
Director: Solange Morales
Writer(s): Solange Morales
Producer(s): Diana Golts
Co-Producer(s): Sandra E. Varona, Yu-Hao Su
Director of Photography: Kyle Warmack
Editor(s): Alvaro Jordan
Production Design: Yihong Ding
Composer(s): JoAnne Harris
Cast: Linda Victoria Romo, Yuny Parada, Erika Flores, Anne Stedman, Max Venison, Brayden T. Ferrell, Ollie
Contact: Diana Golts, dg2735@columbia.edu, gonerfilm@gmail.com
About the Writer/Director
SOLANGE MORALES (writer/director) is a native of Miami Beach, Florida, and grew up intrigued by the countless anecdotes her family would share about the olden days in Peru. In pursuit of storytelling, she obtained a BFA in filmmaking and drove cross-country to Los Angeles, landing jobs with Fox Searchlight Pictures as an assistant to screenwriters, producers and directors for the feature films, Notorious and The Secret Life of Bees. Her next stop was the world of documentaries, where she served as associate producer of ESPN’s One Night in Vegas, chronicling the parallel lives of heavyweight boxing champ, Mike Tyson and prolific rapper, Tupac Shakur. She has spent time in a Peruvian prison, visited Machu Picchu and is a current MFA candidate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
About the Producer
DIANA GOLTS is a Soviet-born, Toronto-raised filmmaker currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Producing at Columbia University where she has produced various short films in three countries and in four languages, including Chapa (Portuguese), Guero(Spanish) and The Examination (Russian). In 2014, she was awarded the Filmhaus Foundation/ Michael Hausman Producing Award (Brokeback Mountain, Gangs of New York, Amadeus) at the Columbia University Film Festival. Prior to graduate school, Diana worked as a producer at Accessible Media Inc. (AMI), a Canadian national television station where she helped create programming for the vision-impaired and people with disabilities.
