Marvin Lemus

Director

MARVIN LEMUS (Director) is a Mexican/Guatemalan-American writer, director and producer. Lemus’ work in digital comedy ranges from successful viral video campaigns for the Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate feature film Dear White People to original digital content that has been featured on numerous websites like HuffingtonPost.com, FunnyOrDie.com, and Flama TV. Lemus is a recent alumnus of Film Independent’s Project Involve. His work has been screened at San Diego Latino Film Festival, Frameline, Outfest, and Cinequest, to name a few. Recently, Lemus co-wrote and directed his first original web series, GENTE-FIED, about Latino characters dealing with the gentrification of Boyle Heights. The series is produced by the Macro Ventures and Executive Produced by America Ferrera.

MOIRA MOREL (Writer/Director of Photography, Vámonos) is an accomplished cinematographer living in Los Angeles with a background in both documentary and narrative filmmaking. Morel was raised in a conservative Latino household in the suburbs of Detroit. After finishing high school, her desire to get a different take on the world led her to Evergreen State College (TESC) in Olympia, WA. It was at TESC that Morel found her passion for photography, documentary filmmaking and activism. In 2012 Morel was accepted into the cinematography program at the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles. Since completing her MFA in 2014, Morel has shot commercials, music videos, shorts, and web series. Many of the films that Morel lensed have screened and won awards at film festivals nationally and internationally, most notably, The Skinny, which premiered at Sundance in 2015 and The Punk Singer, which had its world premiere at SXSW in 2013.

ERICK CASTRILLON (Writer, Vámonos) was born in Colombia and was twelve when his family left to seek the stability of the American suburbs. He got his B.A. at Florida International University in English Literature, where deconstruction and post-colonial theory became his jam. Castrillon earned his M.F.A. in Writing for the Screen & Television from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. There he wrote several feature screenplays and short films while interning at Alexander Payne’s production company, Ad Hominem Enterprises. Upon graduating he was invited to participate in Film Independent’s diversity program, Project Involve, as a Screenwriting Fellow. There he co-wrote Vámonos, which premiered at Outfest Fusion Film Festival, and independently wrote and produced the short film Blast Beat, which premiered at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Shorts Film Festival followed by its Latin American premiere at the International Film Festival in Guadalajara.