Meet the Director: Marisa DeMarini ("Member's Mark")
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Marisa Adelina DeMarini is a writer, director, editor, and photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Frequently blending family history, hybrid technologies, time, and mounting environmental concerns, Marisa’s projects examine humanism through a futurist, near-documentary lens.
Previously Creative Technologist for award-winning experience studio, Here Be Dragons (f.k.a. Vrse.works), she has worked on over 100+ immersive projects on and off set. Currently she is a Creative Director at Strivr, a groundbreaking immersive educational studio and platform.
A former member of the now-inactive editing collective racertrash, which sustained a strong following streaming remixed exquisite corpse-style feature films during the pandemic, her work has screened during Midnight Madness at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival as well as the 2021 Cucalorus Film Festival.
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