Creators Mara Velez
Selected Work
Films & stage
Series · 2025
A six-part series following a coastal church choir as their town is slowly evacuated, told through the songs they refuse to stop rehearsing.
Feature Film · 2024
A widow returns to the flooded village of her childhood to bury her mother, only to find the water has its own ideas about who stays and who leaves.
Short Film · 2022
Two sisters spend the last dry afternoon before the marsh reclaims their family house. Seventeen minutes, one location, no second takes.
Career
Timeline
- 2025
The Drowned Choir
A six-part series following a coastal church choir as their town is slowly evacuated, told through the songs they refuse to stop rehearsing.
- 2024
The Salt Tide
A widow returns to the flooded village of her childhood to bury her mother, only to find the water has its own ideas about who stays and who leaves.
- 2022
Low Country
Two sisters spend the last dry afternoon before the marsh reclaims their family house. Seventeen minutes, one location, no second takes.
In the Credits
Collaborators
The crew and cast Mara keeps returning to — cinematographers, editors, sound designers, and performers — are credited across the public project entries. Open a project to see its full Crew & Cast list.
The Cutting Room
Process
Weather first, story second
Every project starts on the same pannable canvas — a wall of scrap cards. A feeling about light or wind gets pinned long before there is a plot; the script arrives only once the weather of the piece is settled.
What gets shared
Most of the brainstorm stays private — half-formed, contradictory, and the creator's own. A few boards are promoted to the public once they have earned it.
3 OF 47 BOARD ITEMS SHARED PUBLICLY