Knight Made in MIA Award (Short Film)
When six-year-old Elizabeth makes an image-altering decision, she is left to face the backlash from culturally imposing beauty standards. Set in the all-too beauty-centric city of Miami, Elizabeth grapples between her two cultures as she seeks her own identity.
Mariana Serrano is an emerging Latinx writer/director based in Miami, Florida. As a Latina filmmaker, inclusivity of underrepresented communities — in front of and behind the camera — is essential to the stories she tells and her filmmaking process.
Supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and sponsored by FlixLatino and ViendoMovies available with Xfinity.