Vanessa Mariveles

Producer
Writer
Editor

Love. It's about what you wish to share, not what the other deserves. As far as Drew is concerned, he has moved on since Angelica. He has found a new life and new love. But one day, he learns an unhappy truth about his ex-fiancee that sets off an intense personal conflict. Now, he finds his character tested, his happiness threatened, and he is forced to revisit the past in order to face reality about AngelicaÂ’s life and death. Renouncing Angelica explores the denial that usually follows heartbreak, and why one must first grieve, and choose to forgive, before one can actually succeed in overcoming a painful past.

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Renouncing Angelica (2009)

Vanessa Mariveles is a multi-faceted creative artist who has a background in film, music and design. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Motion Pictures from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she dove into entrepreneurship producing numerous shorts and marketing videos. The shorts she produced Renouncing Angelica (2009) and Habitual Aggression (2011) have gone through the international film festival circuit, winning numerous awards and showcasing at the Cannes Court Métrage. Taking a break from film she decided to exercise her passions in DJing and music producing under the moniker Mar1po5a. Growing up in the Silicon Valley, she was fascinated by technology and wanted to learn about coding and design which led to her career as a UX/UI designer. Her design job at Borrowlenses brought her back full circle into filmmaking with the realization of the LGBTQ+ focused stories she wants to tell and share with the world. The first short she directed, Bi-curious Sleepover (2019) won Best LGBT Short at the Play Short International Film Awards and at the Asian Cinematography Awards. Vanessa's directorial debut feature film titled Echoes of Dreams (2024) is an independent drama/comedy based on true events from her life story.