The Secret Life of La Mariposa | Maria Agui Carter - Writer, Director Barbara DeFina - Producer.

Currently in pre-production.

Mari, a 13 year-old with a special connection to the Monarch butterflies of her native Mexico, escapes abuse through fantasy, until the fantasy takes over her reality.

Maria Agui Carter is a playwright, screenwriter and an independent director and producer. She grew up undocumented and graduated from Harvard.

A Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and President of Iguana Films, LLC, she has won George Peabody Gardner, Warren, and Rockefeller Awards, and served as a visiting scholar at Harvard, Tulane and Brandeis. Her recent projects include:

• Rebel (2013) Writer, Director, Producer - Winner of a 2014 Erik Barnouw Award-Best Historical Films in America, PBS, now on Amazon Prime, Itunes

• No Job for a Woman (2012) Producer, PBS, Women Make Movies

• 14 Freight Trains (2015) Playwright, Arena Stage

• SciGirls Latina (2018) Director, Series Advisor, 2019 Emmy nominee

Barbara DeFina has been a producer in the film industry since 1986.  Her first project was The Color of Money for director Martin Scorsese.  She went on to produce such films as :

• Michael Jackson: Bad (1987)

• The Last Temptation of Christ Cape Fear (1988)

• GoodFellas (1990)

• The Grifters (1990)

• The Age of Innocence (1993)

• Casino (1995)

• Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

• Hugo (2011)

• Silence (2016)