Marissa Chibas

Marissa Chibas is a writer, filmmaker, and actor. Her documentary short, Finding Shelter, won best short documentary at the San Diego Latino Film Festival in 2019 and she received a filmmaker of the month award (September 2019) from NewFilmmaker LA. Her solo show Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, which premiered at REDCAT, has toured the U.S., Europe, and Mexico and was published by Rutledge Press. Her silent film/performance piece, Clara’s Los Angeles, was presented at REDCAT’s NOW festival. Other shorts include; Zohra which was nominated for best actress and best comedy awards at Official Latino Film Festival and streamed on BronxNet, Nostalgia, in collaboration with Cuba based artist Aissa Santiso and presented at Fabrica de Arte in Havana, and Clandestino, featured on the LibroTraficante radio show. Her films have screened at; Nevertheless Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, The Segal Center in NYC, Echo Park Film Center, NewFilmakers LA co-hosted with the Oscars among others. Marissa is on the Theater School faculty at CalArts where she is Director of Duende Calarts, a Latinx initiative at CalArts Center for New Performance that collaborates with innovative Latinx and Latin American artists. For Duende she conceived and wrote Shelter, which premiered in April 2016 at Lincoln Park, was presented at the Kennedy Center and is published by NoPassport Press. She is currently working on A Cuban Documemory, a feature length film based on her reflections of her travels to Cuba since 1993, and her life as the daughter of a Cuban revolutionary and runner up Miss Cuba. She recently completed her acting book, Mythic Imagination and the Actor, to be published in 2021. She is the recipient of a TCG Fox Fellowship in Distinguished achievement.