Lissette Feliciano
Directing
Biography
Lissette Feliciano, is a writer, director, actress and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, whose work often centers around socially conscious narratives. She has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute and the UNHCR. She was selected as one of SHOOT Magazines new directors to watch in 2018.
Known For
In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.
Women Is Losers
A film adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the lives of Gloria and Emilio Estefan.
On Your Feet!
When a young solar install technician is dispatched from California to West Texas, his experiences with soulful locals, visiting artists, and untethered truth-seekers searching for meaning in the mysterious Marfa lights force him to look beyond the comforting facades that surround him.
Marfa Lights
Janie John, who after a childhood shaped by neglect and invisibility is pulled into a world that finally sees her, where pain is power and bodies are built, not born. Female bodybuilding offers her something she’s never had: the chance to become untouchable. Coached by a former champion, she begins an extreme transformation, pushing her body past its limits through relentless training, enhancers, and dependence. As her physique sharpens, Janie rises fast, but her grip on reality fractures. Trapped in a system that rewards perfection and punishes weakness, Janie spirals toward a godlike ideal that’s slowly destroying her from within.
Iron Jane
The destiny of a happy Armenian family will change forever in 1915, Ottoman Empire, (Armenian land), now Turkey and whose beautiful dreams will become memories in the eyes of the most famous Armenian American painter, who lives to paint the story of his shattered childhood.
Armenia, My Love...
Every other weekend, Imani (Krystel McNeil) returns to her family’s Illinois farm to help her widowed dad Leonard (Anthony Irons) keep the animals fed, house clean, and crops alive. However, once their livestock start disappearing, prompting fears of wild animals or just bored kids from the surrounding suburbs, Imani confronts the reality of her and her family’s future.
Gossamer
A recently adopted 8-year-old refugee spends a day preparing for her first red carpet appearance with her new pop star mother when she is haunted by reminders of the life she left behind and awakened to the fragility of her new one.