Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada are award-winning filmmakers whose work live on the borderlines of fiction and nonfiction. Their debut documentary film "You and Me" premiered at Visions du Réel and won several awards at Cartagena IFF, Trinidad & Tobago IFF, Havana IFF, among others. Their second documentary "Site of Sites" premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and was part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Neighboring Scenes Showcase. “Site of Sites” was listed as one of the 35 best Latin American Films of 2017 by Cinema Tropical.
Graduates of the prestigious EICTV Cuban Film School, Natalia and Oriol found Faula Films in 2012 in order to provide a creative platform for the development and co-production of independent filmmaking in Dominican Republic. “Miriam Lies” is their first fiction film, coproduced with Spanish arthouse production company Mallerich Films Paco Poch.
In the Dominican Republic, Miriam anxiously awaits her fifteenth birthday party. Her family can’t wait to meet Jean-Louis, her Internet boyfriend set to accompany her. When Miriam sees him for the first time - and realizes he’s Black - her quiet middle class world of good intentions begins to crumble.