All the Words But
The One
Nava Mau
(*Presented as part of the shorts program SELF-LOVE, THEN LOVE.)
5:00 PM, Alamo Draft House, November 1st
Mexico | 2024 | 103′ | Spanish, Wixarika
– sub English
Maya and Santiago haven’t seen each other since their explosive relationship ended years ago, so neither is expecting to be seated across from each other at a professional dinner with their new partners. Maya teeters through a minefield of delicate dynamics as she relives her most painful and electric memories. Fighting dissociation and embodied trauma, she must stay focused on showing up for her partner, Jio. As both couples contend with their realities, the past and present collide and Maya faces Santiago at last.
Director • Dirección
Nava Mau
Screenplay • Guión
Nava Mau
Cinematography • Fotografía
Ava Benjamin Shorr
Edition • Edición
Sowj Kudva
Producer • Productor
Lilly Wachowski, Bamby Salcedo, Alex Schmider
Cast • Elenco
Nava Mau, Domenic Kim, Shaan Dasani, Dani Woodson
Director
Nava Mau
Nava Mau is an Emmy-nominated trans Latina filmmaker, actress, and cultural worker from Mexico City and San Antonio, Texas. Nava wrote, produced, directed, and starred in WAKING HOUR (2019), a short film that screened in festivals around the world and won the NewFest Audience Award. She was a Production Fellow for the Netflix documentary DISCLOSURE (Sundance 2020), and worked as a producer on the short film WORK (Tribeca 2022). She has also appeared as a series regular in the HBO Max series GENERATION (2021) and the Netflix limited series BABY REINDEER (2024).
For eight years, Nava worked in the fields of healing justice and culture change with community-based service providers, student organizations, and survivors of violence. She first worked with immigrant survivors as a legal assistant, and then as a peer counselor and advocate for LGBTQ survivors of violence in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nava has been recognized by awards from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, PFLAG National, and the Critics Choice Association.