Qiya - FANTASIATION

Alba Enid García's Biography

Alba García is an international award winning Puerto Rican director, currently working on her 4th film Dangerously Ever After, a stop-motion film based on the award winning picture book of the same name. This book was written by Dashka Slater and Illustrated by Valeria Docampo. Alba is working on the Pre-Production stages of Qiya a film about the detention camps in Texas.
Alba just completed in the summer of 2018 her new short film Dak'Toká Taíno, (I am Taíno) a Taíno inspired live-puppet short. Dak'Toká Taíno, is a story about the aftermath of hurricane María in Puerto Rico and how Abuela Yaya helps her grand-daugther Marabelí understand their history, their Taíno indigenous culture and how to cope under the desperate situation they are in. Heather Henson from IBEX Puppetry is the Executive Producer for this film along side Sam Koji -Hale. Danny Hastings from ATOMICUS is a Producer for this film.
Alba is a master sculptress, writer, designer. Her art creatures dolls are in private collections all over the world. Alba is a member of Writer's Guild of America, ASIFA, Puppetry Guild of America, and Women in Animation. Alba opened her FANTASIATION Studio in the Summer of 2008. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico achieving a Fine Arts B.A. Degree, she completed a stop-motion Film at the School of Visual Arts, NY, year 2000 achieving the Dusty Film Festival Award for her stop-motion animation, The Happy Prince, by Oscar Wilde. She worked at Celebrity Deathmatch, MTV., as an Animator. Her film Time Space Reflections won International Film Festivals all over the world 2014-2015.

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Welcome to our new production,

As you know our studio focuses on making meaningful and activism films. Currently, we are in the Pre-Production stages of our new film Qiya. The script is registered with the Writer's Guild of America. We are thrilled to announce that Heather Henson (Jim Henson's Daughter) is helping us with studio space and limited financial donation, still its not enough to take the film into post production.

This is a dark fantasy short film about the horrors children are facing at the detention camps at the southern border of the United States. As you know, three children between the ages of 18 months and 8 years have died at these detention centers. Mariee Juarez, Felipe Alónzo-Gomez, Jakelin Caal did not receive the care they needed, and as a result they are no longer with us. I want to shed light on the reason these families flee their countries and their hardships.
Qiya (Means moon in Quechua) is an artistic interpretation of the horrors, and the trauma of separation the parents and children are experiencing at these detention centers at the border.

The story is based on published articles that interviewed parents during the Summer of 2018, until Spring of 2019. The storyboards, script, is done.

This piece will be live action film with animatronic realistic puppets and marionettes and the running time will be about 15 minutes long.

Puppeteers Frankie Cordero and Kervin Peralta are also part of this adventure.

Here is the cast (Left to right) Marc Reign-Supay (God of Death), Laura Aguinaga-Clara (Mom), Luna Aviles- Qiya (Daughter), Richard Calvache- Marcos (Father).

These children and their families need a voice. As an activist, a mother and an artist, I will make sure their voice is heard worldwide. Our goal with Qiya the film, is to reunite these families.
-Alba Enid Garcia, Writer/Director/Artist/Mother