audiovisual direction
Like a Dream: Meeting Your Characters in the Flesh
Directing a story I have written means encountering it for a second time. For months, the characters exist in my imagination: I know their voices, their gestures, their fears, and their silences. Seeing them come to life for the first time through another person feels like watching a dream suddenly become real.
On set, the story no longer belongs solely to the person who wrote it. The actors, the camera, the light, the spaces, and everyone involved begin to transform it, revealing dimensions that may never have existed on the page.
Writing allows me to imagine them. Directing allows me to meet them
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The film was featured in the book Short Films: A Non-Exhaustive List of Highly Creative Shorts, an international collection of outstanding creative short-form filmmaking..
A great time working hard
AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER
Birna Avila wrote, directed and produced the short film THE ANSWER (LA RESPUESTA), recipient of multiple international awards and official selections.