
Lia Chapman
Acting
Biography
Award winning Actor / Director / Author of “El Coraje del Actor”.
Known For

When Margot flees her own wedding, she is left feeling adrift. Little does she know, it is David and his delightful chaos who can help her find her way.
A Perfect Story

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Before Night Falls

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.
The King of Havana

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
Don't Tempt Me

The series shows the life of Alicia, a girl from the province who moves to Madrid to study and decides to earn an extra salary working as a babysitter for some unruly children. Next to her will live three roommates, the innocent and somewhat groggy Almudena, the American and crazy Sara and the ecologist and bohemian Rita.
Babysitters

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.
In the Time of the Butterflies

A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them.
Invisibles

Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
Blood Shed

The story of the relationship between a showgirl and a former toreador.
Tiempos mejores

Twelve-year-old Desi is in pursuit of becoming a famous singer. As Desi braces to leave her hometown, she's met with deep-seated secrets that have long tormented her family and their coastal Dominican community.
Boca Chica

An expert on disarming alarms leaves prison to do a job.
Entre los dioses del desprecio

A film noir evocative Caribbean drama set in 1953 in the Dominican Republic during the cruel dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo. After a group of mental patients escape from Nigua Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Antonio Zaglul is appointed new director of the establishment with the purpose of calming down the negative press the lack of control of the place was generating. It will be difficult to tell if madness lives inside or outside the hospital's walls.
A State of Madness

Jesus, an old man who has been a field worker and now only has his puppy left is obliged to separate from him to undertake the final stretch of his life.
Último paseo
Jenni is a young, beautiful Latina who loves her friends and family. When she learns that her best friend is planning to have an abortion, she is devastated and does not understand why any mother would do that to her child. Jenni has a close relationship with her own mother and even gives her a special friendship necklace on her 40th birthday.
Jenni
David, who is part of a family struck by death and silently suffering from the loss of his grandmother, receives a visit from some friends from abroad who keep him busy. The memories that surround him and the family pressure unleash an emotional crisis in David that makes him travel an unknown path to the depths of the forest and his memory, where he realizes that the fight is with himself and that he must face his greatest pain: the duel of the death of his grandmother.
Beyond the Mist

Barbara is a teenager overwhelmed by her parents' relationship, by the contradictions between her desires and the society she lives in, by love, heartbreak, and misunderstandings. One early morning, she drives 100 kilometers back from a party in Villa Mercedes with her boyfriend Federico, two friends, and a lot of alcohol. Amidst death, helplessness, and incomprehension, her 80-year-old grandmother Olga's story appears at the perfect moment, with the precise wisdom and understanding of a family history of Italian immigrants that repeats itself through generations; with the perfect magic and timing, and a bridge between life and death: the perfect beauty to drain so much pain.
Olga, Victoria Olga

Faced with the deafening silence of the sea, how do four approach a duel? What do they take for granted about death? What different states do three go through with respect to the same duel? What hidden feelings appear? Why do you think you feel things that you don't feel, but say you have to feel and make them your own? What unsuspected vibrations could arrive and completely change your idea of death? By four, by three, by two... and one?
4 3 2 uno
When eight women who are on a path of personal quest work together, what one of them experiences has an impact on all of them.