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- Birth nameMigdia Skarsgård Chinea
- Migdia Skarsgård Chinea is an American awarded filmmaker born in Coral Gables, FL, president of Ciboney Productions, member of the TV Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMMY's) in the Writers category, member of the WGAW. She obtained a UCLA MFA in Film and Media Studies in 2012. Migdia's independent short films "anonymous (street meat)," "Kninth Floor" and "The Prince of Old Havana" have been semi-finalist at Cannes Un Certain Regard, the Phillip K Dick Film Festival (NY City and Lille, France), St. Petersburg Film Festival in Russia, among numerous others. She has written and produced "The Incredible Hulk" and has completed psychological horror short "Red on Red". Migdia wrote, directed and produced her first full length indie feature "When it Rains," a post sexual revolution film set in 1972 Hollywood, received (as a work-in-progress) the Individual Merit Award at the Richmond International Film Festival, in VA, along with The Prince of Old Havana. Her TV series "Alchemist of Boyle Heights" introduces us to a modern day alchemist -- a working mom who turns bad times into gold.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Ciboney Productions
- Lives in a Historically-designated and registered Spanish Colonial Revival House in the City of Glendale, the Peterson House
- Migdia's mom Mimó is of German ancestry - Suarez de Lillo - and ancient Visigoth origin with various Germanic variation as Saretz, Schwartz and Soros.
- While a student of Classics at UCLA, she portrayed the title role in Seneca's "Medea.".
- Migdia Chinea is a notable UCLA Film Grad Alumna.
- Migdia has a 1999 Cum Laude UCLA BA in Political Science/Pre Law and Classical Civilization.
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