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A sacrifice for my mother

Supported by Latino Film Institute's 2026 SPARK by Netflix

Created, written and directed by Sandra Powers

Story: A grieving young Claudia summons the ancient beasts of death to bring back her mother, only to find herself in a dangerous game with only one lifeline.

Genre: Fantasy, drama, horror (Spanish/English)

Theme: Struggle, overcoming grief, love

Style: Tropigoth (Miami meets Goth)

Format: Animation, short film, 2D

Tone: Pan's Labyrinth meets Coraline

Information: Website | IMDb | Instagram

World premiere: May, 2026

Co-production with Theater Magdeburg, Germany

Songs, lyrics: Nick Urata, singer-songwriter of the band DeVotchKa and film composer (Paddington, Little Miss Sunshine, Quiz Lady, Netflix' A Series of Unfortunate Events).

Original story, lyrics: Sandra Powers and Timur Bekbosunov

Director: Julien Chavaz

Story: To save their historic summer camp, a scrappy city council stages an immersive experience.

Genre: musical, comedy, supernatural

Theme: Transformation and authenticity in the face of adversity

Format: stage, theater, live performance

Tone: Beetlejuice meets the SpongeBob (musical)

World premiere: 2027-2028

WEREWOLF CAMP

Don't change (unless you're a werewolf)

Based on characters by Sandra Powers

Writer and Director: Sandra Powers

Story: When his swamp home is destroyed, young Chuchi the Chupacabra escapes to Miami, where he forms unlikely friendships while evading the nefarious scientist.

Genre: Comedy, magic, monsters

Style: Tropigoth (Miami meets Goth)

Theme: Friendship, adventure, self-discovery

Tone: Wednesday meets Trollhunters

Format: Animated TV episodic series

Writer and Director: Sandra Powers

Story: Sammi discovers her ability to mind-speak with aliens, while working at the Paranormal Translation Agency (P.T.A.)

Genre: Sci-fi comedy

Theme: Friendship, misunderstandings, sacrifice

Style: Campy, vibrant, retro

Tone: Men in Black meets H.P. Lovecraft meets Farscape

Format: Live-action episodic TV series

PARANORMAL TRANSLATOR AGENCY

Feeling a little spacey?

MISFITS IN MIAMI

The Troublemakers will change the world

Three-time Emmy and Annie Award-nominated Peruvian-American editor, director, and writer Sandra Bambarén Powers was the lead editor of Disney’s critically acclaimed series Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. A graduate of the MFA Film/Video program at CalArts and the BFA program at MassArt, she has contributed her creative expertise to iconic shows like Nickelodeon’s Legend of Korra, and Disney’s Elena of Avalor. Her short film Still Life After Death premiered at the Sharjah Film Festival in 2021 and is now streaming on Amazon Prime, while her debut live-action short Autumn was distributed by Ouat Media and screened at numerous international festivals. In 2023, Sandra art-directed the Grammy®-nominated opera film Black Lodge by David T. Little and produced by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) for Opera Philadelphia. She made her stage directorial debut with The Great Soviet Bucket, produced by BMP with Miami Light Project, and funded by the National Performance Network’. She also conceived and directed BARDO, an immersive theatrical experience hailed by the LA Times as “full of wonder,” performed at the historic United Theater (CAP UCLA 2024) and BRIC (PROTOTYPE 2025). Sandra brings her distinctive vision to multiple mediums, having designed and directed over fifteen music videos for bands. IMDb

Timur Bekbosunov

GRAMMY®-nominated Qazaq-American performer and film producer TIMUR, “the extravagantly transgressive, dangerous and seductive” (LA Times), has made solo appearances with LA Philharmonic, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Opera Philadelphia, National Czech Opera Theater, Comédie de Genève, PROTOTYPE, Santa Cecilia Academy, Müpa Budapest, among many others. As a film producer, Timur worked on nine projects as an executive, producer and creative, including Sundance's 2019 winner "Clemency" (starring Alfre Woodard), "Color Out of Space" (starring Nicholas Cage, TIFF premiere), "Daniel Isn’t Real" (SXSW premiere) and "Measure of Revenge" (starring Bella Thorne) for ACE Pictures Entertainment. His theatrical projects with his band Timur and the Dime Museum, “a post-punk screaming opera” (NPR), developed and produced by long-time collaborator Beth Morrison Projects, include Collapse (REDCAT, Operadagen Rotterdam, BAM 2015 Next Wave Festival); industrial opera film "Black Lodge" (Opera Philadelphia, CAP UCLA); a musical satire "The Great Soviet Bucket" (Miami Light Project); and a sci-fi comedy "Klaus from Space" (O. Festival Rotterdam, Klanggg_Festival Switzerland, Theater Magdeburg). IMDb