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FANCY FLOREZ'S SUMMER STAYCATION

Fancy Florez, a resourceful ten-year-old without friends or funds, sets out to enjoy a luxurious summer in her neighbor’s abandoned pool when her game plan is thwarted by her archenemy, sparking an epic Mexican standoff.

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Director : Marissa Díaz

Marissa Díaz is a Tejana writer, director, and producer. Most recently, Marissa was named the winner of McDonald’s Spotlight Dorado short film competition, and received a $75,000 grant to write and direct FANCY FLOREZ’S SUMMER STAYCATION. Before that, Marissa wrote and produced the feature documentary, ORGASM INC: THE STORY OF ONETASTE (Netflix.) She worked on hit series GIRLS (HBO), produced queer teen series GENERATION (HBOMax), and wrote WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE LIVE (Amazon Studios). Previously, she worked at Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going, Fox Searchlight, MGM Studios, Bravo TV, Martin Scorsese’s SikeliaProductions, and The Weinstein 

Company.  Marissa’s half-hour comedy COCHINAS was selected for The Black List + Netflix’s Latinx List, an industry-curated list that highlights 10 exemplary film and television screenplays from talented Latinx storytellers. Her work has been supported by a number of industry fellowships including the Sundance Episodic Lab, Dan Lin’s Rideback Rise, the Producers Guild of America’s Create Lab, and Film Independent’s Episodic Lab and their CNN Original Series Docuseries Intensive. Marissa holds a BFA in Film & TV Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California, where she was awarded the Stark Special Production Grant for writing and directing.

Lead Cast:

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  • Skyler Kay Esquivel

  • Noah Santiage Duarte

Support Cast:  

Writer(s):

  • Marissa Díaz

Narrator(s)
 

  • Mario Lopez

  • Melinna Bobadilla

  • Juliana Joel

Producer(s):
 

  • Marissa Díaz

  • Austin Sepulveda

  • Quan Lateef-Hill

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