Nava Mau

Acting

Nava Mau

Born 1992-05-14 · Mexico City, Mexico

Nava Mau is a Mexican-American filmmaker, actress, and cultural worker. Mau was born in Mexico City however was raised in San Antonio, Texas. In 2018, Nava wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the short film "Waking Hour," which screened in festivals around the world. She was selected as a Production Fellow on the Netflix documentary "Disclosure," and she appears next as a series regular on the HBO Max series "Generation." For 8 years, Nava worked in the fields of healing justice and culture change with community-based service providers, student organizations, and survivors of violence. Her long-term vision is to illuminate the stories of marginalized people in order to transform their access to resources.

Acting credits

Rainbow Girls poster
NR

As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.

Rainbow Girls

2025

Femenina poster
1.0

A dedicated boxer is forced to confront his sexuality after he begins training with and falling for a transgender woman.

Femenina

2019

Work poster
5.6

Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabi, a queer Latina freelance editor, impulsively drops into an old job at an underground lap dance party, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.

Work

2022

The Long Con poster
NR

A little desert motel. A runaway bride. A grifter lover. A suitcase full of trouble.

The Long Con

2026

The Dregs poster
NR

A friends’ trip to the Italian Alps gets derailed by old wounds and a cursed bottle of Grappa.

The Dregs

Swing and Sway poster
6.2

Two friends respond to the challenges of the present by connecting through a playful provocation. Separated by America’s hemispheres, one in Brazil and the other in the U.S, they communicate strictly through video letters during a year. As a rule, each letter is formally and thematically inspired by a woman experimental filmmaker. As life unfolds, they express on film what they want to share with each other: the experience of being a recent immigrant, the expectations of political elections in both countries, their fears and hopes, all while observing the different women around them.

Swing and Sway

2023

Sam's Town poster
NR

Sam and Maggie were best friends. Maggie's partner, also named Sam, always felt jealous of their emotional connection. After Maggie accidentally overdoses and dies, the two Sams are left to deal with the memory of a person they both loved in very different ways, and with their own relationship, which is further complicated when they wake up in bed together the morning after a celebration of Maggie's life.

Sam's Town

2020

Waking Hour poster
NR

A young trans woman is pursued by a potential lover at a party. As she balances concerns about her safety and her desire for intimacy, she must figure out what she wants before she can go for it.

Waking Hour

2019

all the words but the one poster
NR

Maya and Santiago haven’t seen each other since their explosive relationship ended years ago, so neither is expecting to be sitting across from each other at a professional dinner with their new partners. Maya teeters through this minefield of delicate power dynamics as she relives some of her most painful and electric memories. Fighting dissociation and embodied trauma, she must stay focused on the dinner's high stakes for her partner, Jio, as both couples contend with their realities. The past and present collide, and Maya faces Santiago at last.

all the words but the one

2024

Behind the camera

Sam's Town poster
NR

Sam and Maggie were best friends. Maggie's partner, also named Sam, always felt jealous of their emotional connection. After Maggie accidentally overdoses and dies, the two Sams are left to deal with the memory of a person they both loved in very different ways, and with their own relationship, which is further complicated when they wake up in bed together the morning after a celebration of Maggie's life.

Sam's Town

2020

Waking Hour poster
NR

A young trans woman is pursued by a potential lover at a party. As she balances concerns about her safety and her desire for intimacy, she must figure out what she wants before she can go for it.

Waking Hour

2019

Waking Hour poster
NR

A young trans woman is pursued by a potential lover at a party. As she balances concerns about her safety and her desire for intimacy, she must figure out what she wants before she can go for it.

Waking Hour

2019

Waking Hour poster
NR

A young trans woman is pursued by a potential lover at a party. As she balances concerns about her safety and her desire for intimacy, she must figure out what she wants before she can go for it.

Waking Hour

2019

all the words but the one poster
NR

Maya and Santiago haven’t seen each other since their explosive relationship ended years ago, so neither is expecting to be sitting across from each other at a professional dinner with their new partners. Maya teeters through this minefield of delicate power dynamics as she relives some of her most painful and electric memories. Fighting dissociation and embodied trauma, she must stay focused on the dinner's high stakes for her partner, Jio, as both couples contend with their realities. The past and present collide, and Maya faces Santiago at last.

all the words but the one

2024

all the words but the one poster
NR

Maya and Santiago haven’t seen each other since their explosive relationship ended years ago, so neither is expecting to be sitting across from each other at a professional dinner with their new partners. Maya teeters through this minefield of delicate power dynamics as she relives some of her most painful and electric memories. Fighting dissociation and embodied trauma, she must stay focused on the dinner's high stakes for her partner, Jio, as both couples contend with their realities. The past and present collide, and Maya faces Santiago at last.

all the words but the one

2024