Mariona Lloreta is a Mediterranean-American, award-winning multidisciplinary artist and educator working internationally across film, poetry, painting, and dance. With a lifelong commitment to social and racial justice, her work centers empowered storytelling and narrative change.
Mariona’s practice explores identity, spirituality, and collective memory - celebrating the universal threads that bind us while examining the liminal spaces between presence and absence, brokenness and wholeness, past and future. Her work reflects a deep reverence for both the beauty and vulnerability of the human experience.
Her poem Arabesque was selected for the City of Boston’s Mayor’s Poetry Program in 2024. Her recent film ALTARS, a multidisciplinary production featuring Boston-based artists, invites audiences into each artist’s unique response to racial injustice in the United States.
Mariona’s previous films have garnered international acclaim. A Lua Nunca Morre, which she directed and produced in Rio de Janeiro, won Best Experimental Film and Best Cinematography at the Oscar-qualifying Reel Sisters Film Festival and was an official selection at Oscar-qualifying Edmonton International Film Festival, New York Latino Film Festival, NALIP’s Latino Media Fest, and others. Amenze, In Between Worlds received Best Cinematography at Reel Sisters, a Best International Film nomination at BronzeLens, and was featured at Oscar-qualifying Zinebi in Spain and dozens of additional festivals worldwide.
Other projects include editing the award-winning feature The Ghost and the House of Truth in South Africa; directing In the Absence of Things, starring Sony Music artist Somi; and producing several documentaries, including ReSignifications (commissioned by NYU), Living Together (Metropolitan Area Planning Council), and The Lagos Music Salon in Nigeria.
Mariona is committed to creating leadership and mentorship opportunities - both on set and in the classroom - for femme, immigrant, artists of color, centering voices marginalized by race, gender, and migration status. She serves as an Affiliate Professor of Screenwriting at Emerson College and as Director of Development at creative writing agency GrubStreet. Through these roles, she has designed free courses, raised scholarship funds, and expanded access for emerging and aspiring storytellers. Her pedagogy centers on reclaiming narratives that have been historically invisibilized, flattened, or dishonored, offering students a blueprint to pursue their unique creative visions.
Born into an artistic family in Mediterranean Barcelona - where art is integrated throughout the architecture and infuses the day-to-day experience of the city - Mariona understands creativity as inseparable from being human. Now as an immigrant, artist, and educator, she sees access to the arts as essential to a thriving community, and a cornerstone for building a more connected, vibrant, and just world.
RECENT AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2025, Winner - Opportunity Fund Award, City of Boston Arts and Culture, Boston, MA
2024, Winner - Mayor’s Poetry Program, City of Boston, Boston, MA
2024, Selected - Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, City of Boston, Boston, MA
2024, Winner - Collective Futures Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Boston, MA
2024, Winner - City of Boston Wake Up the Night Grant, Boston, MA
2022, Winner - New England Dance Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA
2022, Winner - Opportunity Fund Award, City of Boston Arts and Culture, Boston, MA
2021, Winner - Artist Fellowship in Film & Video, Mass Cultural Council, Boston, MA
2021, Winner - Live Arts Boston (LAB) Grant, The Boston Foundation, Boston, MA
2021, Winner - Opportunity Fund Award, City of Boston Arts and Culture, Boston, MA
2021, Winner - Assets for Artists, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2021, Winner - Art for Racial Justice Grant, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
2020, Winner - Radical Imagination for Racial Justice Grant, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2020, Winner - Best Experimental Film Award, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, A lua nunca morre (Oscar-Qualifying)
2020, Winner - Best Cinematography Award, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, A lua nunca morre (Oscar-Qualifying)
2020, Winner - City of Cambridge Vacant Storefront Design Contest, Boston, MA
2020, Winner - MetroCommon 2050 Community Engagement Grant, MAPC, Boston, MA
2019, Winner - Opportunity Fund Award, City of Boston Arts and Culture, Boston, MA
2019, Winner - MetroCommon 2050 Spark Grant Award, MAPC, Boston, MA
2019, Winner - Oil Painting Studio Art Grant, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2019, Winner - Best Nigerian Film Award, Africa International Film Festival, Nigeria, The Ghost and the House of Truth
2019, Winner - Best Narrative Feature (World Cinema), Urbanworld Film Festival, The Ghost and the House of Truth