My Work
F
Director
Fiction Short Film
USA
A nine year-old boy tries to complete a school test while his mind travels to a deeper world.
If I lose my mind
Director
Documentary Short Film
CUBA
The daily routine of a simple man trapped in a psychiatric hospital serves as a reflection for the director in this documentary, who wonders as an observer what would happen if she lost her mind.
Tehran Blues
Writer
Documentary Full Feature Film
SPAIN
Iran is presented as a country with many different faces where tradition and modernity coexist and come face to face. Through music and its people, our main character, Erfan, guides us to discover an unknown but sophisticated country.
Wind Mills
Art Director
Fiction Full Feature Film
SPAIN
After going down the wrong paths to achieve her goal in life, Eva discovers that her gift is to encourage others' talents. It is her way of understanding the world... although the world does not seem to understand her.
An elephant on a spiderweb
Writer
Documentary Full Feature Film
SPAIN
A filmmaker in his seventies feels his death is approaching. He wants to laugh about life in what will become his last film. To do so, he will approach a 108 year-old woman with a great desire to die.
BIO
Doriam Alonso studied in Cuba at Instituto Superior de Artes of Havana (ISA) and Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV). She also studied film at the Art Institute Miami International University of Arts and Design (AI). In 2017, Doriam moved from the United States to Valencia, Spain.
She has directed a couple of short films. Her latest one, F was selected at festivals such as Los Angeles Short Film Festival and Austin Film Festival. With this short film she won the jury prize at the Veracruz Film Festival, Mexico.
In Valencia, she has worked as a screenwriter for the production company Quatre Films, in feature films such as An Elephant on the Web and Blues for Tehran, recent selection for Gijon International Film Festival and Moscu International Film Festival. In Miami, she has worked with Robert Colom for Filmes Conéme developing her feature film Orphan Motherland, a USA and Cuba coproduction.
Doriam also worked as an educator. She created an educational film program curriculum called Action Kids, designed to teach children how to make a movie from a very early age.