Directing
Monica Sorelle
Place of birth
Miami, Florida, USA
Known for
Directing
Credits
4 titles
Monica Sorelle is a Haitian-American filmmaker and artist born & based in Miami. Her work explores alienation and displacement, and preserves cultural traditions within Miami & the Caribbean with a focus on the African & Latin diasporas that reside there. Monica’s feature directorial debut, Mountains, had its world premiere at Tribeca Festival, where it was awarded a Special Jury Mention in the U.S. Narrative Feature competition, and its international premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Mountains was nominated for two Film Independent Spirit Awards, with Monica receiving the Someone to Watch Award.
Known for
7.7While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying Miami neighborhood.
Mountains
2024
6.7A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.
T
2019
NRYou Can Always Come Home explores the architecture of the domestic realm through the eyes of young children in Miami by celebrating the ritual, family, love, and culture cultivated in the Black diasporic home.
You Can Always Come Home
2021
Behind the camera
7.7While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying Miami neighborhood.
Mountains
2024
7.7While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying Miami neighborhood.
Mountains
2024
6.7A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.
T
2019
NRYou Can Always Come Home explores the architecture of the domestic realm through the eyes of young children in Miami by celebrating the ritual, family, love, and culture cultivated in the Black diasporic home.
You Can Always Come Home
2021