Mia
Trachinger
Mia Trachinger is a genre writer/director who makes films that scratch society's underbelly. She has lived many lives: indie filmmaker, UCLA film school professor, voice director, television marketing consultant.
Mia's first two features, BUNNY and REVERSION, played at Sundance, Toronto, were nominated for Independent Spirit Awards, won Cinequest, and earned Mia Hollywood Reporter's "25 New Faces To Watch" distinction.
Filmography
Bunny
Speculative Fiction — BUNNY follows a couple fleeing a war-torn country to find that they must don giant bunny suits to survive in their new home.
Toronto International Film Festival • San Sebastian Film Festival • Hamptons International Film Festival
NOMINATED
Two Independent Spirit Awards
WINNER
Cinequest Maverick Spirit Award
“An original work of inventive whimsy, with great poignancy”
- Variety
“A haunting work...with heartbreakingly original performances”
- Filmmaker Magazine
Reversion
Grounded Sci-Fi — In a world in which the past, present, and future unfold simultaneously, REVERSION tells the tale of Eva, a woman desperately trying to avoid a destiny in which she kills Marcus, the man she loves.
Premiered Sundance Film Festival • Sao Paulo International Film Festival • Ashland Film Festival
WINNER
St. Louis International Film Festival Indie Express Award
NOMINATED
Sundance New Frontier Award
“**** (Four stars) Stunning, a day after watching it I’m still thinking about it...a week or two later, it will still be in my mind.”
- Film Threat
“Playful, melancholy and ultimately riveting.”
- Filmmaker Magazine
Exposure
Grounded Sci-Fi — In a world where people are employed as live body contagions to immunize urban populations, an unvaccinated man resists being inoculated.
Episode for the second season of PBS’ Futurestates science fiction TV series, each stand-alone episode written and directed by an independent filmmaker, including episodes by Barry Jenkins, Nisha Ganatra, Ramin Bahrani.