Mila Vilaplana: The Young Director Revolutionizing Visual Storytelling | Morse Code Podcast

Mila Vilaplana is a film director, producer, and founder of Dipsomania, a production house focused on the creation of visually arresting psychologically-driven narratives. Originally from Cuba, Mila has been active in the States for ten years, with multiple films to her credit, and multiple awards.

I caught her latest project “Beneath the Veil” last month at the Nashville Film Festival, and it made me think about how different is my approach to filmmaking, compared to what I saw going on in Mila’s work. I’m a writer and I think like a writer — that is, with words, one after the other. Subject, predicate, clop clop clop.

To me, Mila works more like a painter, in a sense that everything is available at once. The eyes do the steering. Behind the Veil — a story that unfolds almost completely without dialogue — was a masterclass in the power of visual storytelling. The only works in the hands of a bold storyteller, but circumventing the usual machinations of plot can can result in a immediate emotional delivery, rather than buggering around with a bunch of language.

We talked about this, as well as her early influences, which include Italian director Dario Argento and the Italian genre known as Giallo — a pastiche of stylish violence, gore, and creepy visuals.

Basically everyone wants to work with Mila right now. I wanted to get her take on why she thought that was, and how it is she’s managed to do so much in so few years.

She’s currently working on a new project with her writing partner M.K. Kopp, called Dead Land, and I’m excited to share: she and I are working on our own special project, due out in early 2025.

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This episode sponsored by Writerfest, a creative gathering for aspiring writers, published authors, screenwriters, poets, and songwriters in.  Writerfest is happening Nov 22 and 23. Find out more information on writerfestnashville.com

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