Marynell Maloney
Independent filmmaker and founder of Studio Chenailles, Marynell Maloney has defied categorization since embarking upon her unusual approach to cinema, although it has been suggested her work at times hints of a mix between Bunuel and Greenway, and one critic called her “a female cross between Wood Allen and Ingmar Bergman.” In fact, Marynell Maloney’s work stands alone in its originality and timelessness.
After winning a major prize in the Houston Film Fest for her first short film, "Cures for Love", a farce embracing Ovid’s advice, Marynell Maloney has been writing and directing a series of interconnected philosophical comedies that are scheduled to start being released in reverse sequence later this fall. The latest, The Sunsetters, was filmed last summer in a nature preserve at a remote beach in Costa Rica. Utilizing cast and crew from around the world, and filming in exotic locations ranging from Paris to Moscow to Costa Rica (and a variety of places in-between), Marynell Maloney’s films are as geographically elusive as her ideas are far ranging and offbeat. From anarchic to absurdist to provocative, Marynell Maloney’s films are laden with talented actors exploring far-ranging ideas about the preposterousness of the human condition.
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