Farah Ysvette Mourad Vera
Writer | Director | Producer | Artist
THE SOVEREIGN A Feature Film
On the eve of the local holiday festivities, a pair of dueling cousins vie for their rich aunt's contribution to their respective babies' birthday funds, but she is preoccupied with mining the experiences of their less-fortunate holiday guests for a new ending to her latest play.
This film is reached its 1st round fundraising goal on March 2nd, 2022. We began filming on July 8, 2022 and wrapped principal photography on July 23, 2022.
Writer, Director, Producer
While writing this film, I indulged my love of language by writing dialogue in English, Spanish and Spanglish. I cherish my multi-cultural background (Venezuelan-Lebanese-American) and aim to represent it in this work. I don't speak Arabic (yet), but there will be Lebanese food on screen, to make up for that!
It's been a long way to get to this point. As a former asylum seeker from Venezuela, my life has been filled with many disruptions that, at times, had me wanting to give up on pursuing the arts as a career. After publishing my first science fiction novel, MANTIS GREEN, during the pandemic, I was inspired to return to film. I hope you'll join me on this journey to make THE SOVEREIGN, a timely story that's very close to my heart. Thank you for every measure of support that you give to me and to other creators like me.
Thank you,
Farah
MANTIS GREEN A Novel
This science fiction novel's story centers on the creation and lethal destruction of an orbital infrastructure built around planet Earth. Milian Sieglund—an alien architect tasked with building a moon for a wealthy recluse—contends with displacement, identity and the concept of home. MANTIS GREEN is an intimate allegorical science fiction story, told by a series of characters, whose narratives often read as memoirs. It explores privilege, xenophobia, environmental responsibility, and isolation.
A Bit More About Me
Farah (she/they) is a Venezuelan-Lebanese-American artist. She earned a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in 2009 and resides in Los Angeles, California, USA. Farah was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to the US in 1999, as the political situation in her home country was changing. Drawing from her multicultural experience, Farah employs themes of exile, social justice, intersectionality, and identity in her work.
She published her first science fiction novel, MANTIS GREEN, in 2020, has worked as a freelance painter, and enjoys nature photography as a hobby. Growing up bilingual, Farah is passionate about language and an avid supporter of Spanglish and other hybrid dialects.