Third Trinity
This elegant devotional marks the directorial debut of Yara Travieso, and reunites the Academy-Award winning makers of Moonlight with Miami.
SYNOPSIS
Puerto Rico. Young and pregnant, Wilma fears becoming absorbed by motherhood like her sister Luisa, losing both herself and her artistic aspirations. On this morning, her mother, a santera, presents her with a startling premonition: life has other plans for her, her children and her family.
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Yara Travieso
BASED ON THE PLAY BY Teo Castellanos
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY Tarell Alvin McCraney, Rebkah Lanae Lengel, and Teo Castellanos
PRODUCED BY Andrew Hevia and Jason Fitzroy Jeffers
CO-PRODUCED BY Robert Colom
STARRING Jaquén Tee Castellanos and Zuleyma Guevara
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY Jomo Fray
EDITED BY Theo Mercado
PRESS
“Filmmaker and All-Around Extraordinaire Yara Travieso Gives Us a First Look at Her Film ‘Third Trinity,’ Premiering Next Week at Miami Film Fest”
By Yamily Habib – February 29, 2020. Be Latina.
Moonlight Screenwriter Tarell McCraney on the 305/One Festival and Miami's Unconventional Creative Scene
By Taylor Estape – July 27, 2018. Miami New Times.
ABOUT director yara travieso
Yara Travieso is a Brooklyn based writer, director, filmmaker, choreographer and educator. Travieso received a Dance BFA from The Juilliard School in 2009. She is a 2019 United States Artist Fellow, a Creative Capital recipient, and a winner of The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Grant via The Ford Foundation. Her film and stage work has garnered attention for upending long established modes of storytelling, crossing genres and mediums through ambitious Latin-American-Female centric narratives.
