Migdia Chinea Varela Explained

Migdia Skarsgård Chinea Varela
Othername:Migdia Chinea
Occupation:screenwriter, director, producer, production designer, (former actress).
Yearsactive:1971-present
Website:http://theprinceofoldhavana.com

Migdia Skarsgård Chinea-Varela (also credited as Migdia Chinea) is an American screenwriter[1] [2] and director[3] She was a writer for the TV series Superboy,[2] as well as for The Incredible Hulk, The Facts of Life, and Punky Brewster. She appeared in the second season of Sanford and Son as Maria Fuentes, the younger sister of Julio Fuentes, in the 1973 episode "Watts Side Story". She has written about theatre for the Los Angeles Times[4] [5] She lives in Glendale, California.

In 2012, Skarsgård-Chinea graduated with a master's degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.[6] She wrote and directed the short film Anonymous (Street Meat) as part of an experimental film course.[3] The four-minute film, which is based on her experiences with faulty mortgage foreclosure notices,[3] [7] was selected un certain regard to appear at the Cannes Short Film Festival[3] and earned an honorable mention at the California International Shorts Film Festival. After the film's reception at Cannes, Chinea told The Daily Bruin that she hoped to be able to film a full-length version.[3]

Her film The Kninth Floor was a final selection at the 2012 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival.[8] It was also screened at the 2012 Cyprus International Film Festival.[9] and the 2012 Los Angeles Polish Film Festival.[10] She is in production on The Prince of Old Havana, based on the life of Cuban political icon and pimp Alberto Yarini (1882–1910).

Migdia Chinea is of German-Jewish background through her mom Violeta Mimó Suarez (a variation of Soros and Schwartz).

Select film and television credits

Actress

Director

Writer

External links

Notes and References

  1. K L. Billingsley "'Voluntary' effort shuts out TV writer Hollywood puts Hispanics in second tier," Washington Times March 25, 1997
  2. Book: DiPaolo, Marc. War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda In Comics and Film. 2011. McFarland. 978-0-7864-8579-6. 299 . 27 October 2013.
  3. Taylor, Brittany, Grad student Midgia Skarsgård Chinea's film 'anonymous (street meat)' selected for Cannes Short Film festival, Daily Bruin, 25 May 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  4. Los Angeles Times, 14 November 1994, quoted in Cultural Erotics in Cuban America, Ricardo L. Ortíz. University of Minnesota Press, 2007, p. 298
  5. Web site: Making Sense of Cuban History - Los Angeles Times . Articles.latimes.com . 1994-11-14 . 2014-08-05.
  6. Web site: Kovarik . Casey . TFT alum tells history seventeen years in the making . Daily Bruin . 2014-08-05.
  7. News: Are the Banks Still Coming for Your House?. 2011-11-06. Daniel. Cubias. Huffingtom Post. 2011-11-14.
  8. http://www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com/program2012.html Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival program
  9. http://www.cyprusevents.net/assets/event/CYIFF-2012.pdf 2012 Cyprus International Film Festival program
  10. http://www.polishfilmla.org/wocms.php?siteID=12&ID=647 Los Angeles Polish Film Festival program
  11. Web site: LatinoLA | Hollywood :: Migdia Chinea Directs the Prince of Old Havana. LatinoLA.
  12. Web site: Welcome theprinceofoldhavana.com - BlueHost.com. theprinceofoldhavana.com.
  13. Web site: Private video on Vimeo. vimeo.com.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Migdia Chinea Varela".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.