My Work
Not by myself
(Sola No)
Director and Scriptwriter
Fiction
SPAIN 2023
An old woman runs away from home in search of silence, in order to spend her final days in solitude, away from modern society. However, her daughter does not understand her and, thinking she’s doing the right thing, she refuses to leave her alone.
F
Director and Scriptwriter
Fiction
USA/SPAIN
A nine year old boy tries to complete a school test while his mind travels to a deeper world.
Tehran Blues
Scriptwriter
Documentary
SPAIN
Nominated best documentary
GOYA 2022
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.
An elephant on a spider web
Scriptwriter
Documentary
SPAIN
![UNA ELEFANTA SOBRE LA TELA DE UNA ARAÑA, Rolando Díaz [Trailer]](https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/1353832097-86c22d84580349b0bc45cb802002723f25dc63ca0357ba971ce88d61fb1d029e-d_1920x1080?&r=pad®ion=us)
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 big desire to die.
If I lose my mind
Director and Scriptwriter
Documentary
CUBA
The daily routine of a patient trapped in a psychiatric hospital serves as a reflection for the director of this documentary, who wonders as an observer what would happen if she lost her mind.
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 various short films. Right now she just finished Not By Myself, winner of Curts 2022 for best upcoming short, and its presently on tour on film festivales 2023. 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, nominated for best documentary GOYA 2022. In Miami, she has worked with Robert Colom for Filmes Conéme developing her feature film Orphan Motherland.
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.