Mimi Machado-Luces is an Emmy award-winning producer, writer, and director. Born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in a multilingual family, her strongest asset is her passion for storytelling in both Español and English. MimiTVA Media is a DC-area media consultancy and production firm, specializing in bilingual – cross-cultural – digital, film, broadcast and radio content. Machado-Luces tells stories genuinely – imbued with culture, engaging an overlooked audience with tremendous value. Whether she is directing her documentary in Trinidad or in the classroom filmmaking arts integration program, DigiEd Films; her unique formula for audience engagement via targeted content has been successful for more than two decades.
Miriam’s range of experience is expansive. In 2018, Machado-Luces wrote, developed, casted and produced a short film about friendship and diversity entitled, “I Thought I Knew You,” starring R&B legend Marc Nelson, Stan Kang, and Tom Giannini. She is currently producing a documentary about her own Afro-Latin family entitled, Trini-Vene Tribe using her father’s treasured 8mm films and in-depth family interviews. Machado-Luces continues to freelance as a producer, publicist, and media arts educator. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Journalism & Business Management from Howard University in Washington, DC. Miriam currently resides in the Washington, DC area with her family.
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An award-winning filmmaker and producer from Nepal, Min Bahadur Bham was born in 1985, graduated in Nepali Literature and Filmmaking and Post Graduate in Buddhist Philosophy and Political Science. He participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Asian Film Academy (Busan) in 2013. His short film THE FLUTE (2012) and his debut feature KALO POTHI (2015) were the first Nepalese films presented at Venice Film Festival, the latter winning the Fedeora Award, Critic’s Week section. Min Bahadur Bham is also President of the Independent Film Society of Nepal, Assistant Professor at Oscar Int. College of Film Studies.
He has won SØRFOND grants with cash prize $60 thousand for the new film “A Year of Cold” in during Cannes Film Festival 2019 at France.