Lia Chapman

Acting

Lia Chapman

República Dominicana

Award winning Actor / Director / Author of “El Coraje del Actor”.

Acting credits

Before Night Falls poster
6.7

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Before Night Falls

2000

In the Time of the Butterflies poster
6.3

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

In the Time of the Butterflies

2001

Don't Tempt Me poster
5.6

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

Don't Tempt Me

2001

The King of Havana poster
6.9

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other's arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.

The King of Havana

2015

Blood Shed poster
3.3

Loosely based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.

Blood Shed

2014

Olga, Victoria Olga poster
7.0

Barbara is a teenager overwhelmed by her parents' relationship, by the contradictions between her desires and the society she lives in, by love, heartbreak, and misunderstandings. One early morning, she drives 100 kilometers back from a party in Villa Mercedes with her boyfriend Federico, two friends, and a lot of alcohol. Amidst death, helplessness, and incomprehension, her 80-year-old grandmother Olga's story appears at the perfect moment, with the precise wisdom and understanding of a family history of Italian immigrants that repeats itself through generations; with the perfect magic and timing, and a bridge between life and death: the perfect beauty to drain so much pain.

Olga, Victoria Olga

2006

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NR

Jenni is a young, beautiful Latina who loves her friends and family. When she learns that her best friend is planning to have an abortion, she is devastated and does not understand why any mother would do that to her child. Jenni has a close relationship with her own mother and even gives her a special friendship necklace on her 40th birthday.

Jenni

2017

Invisibles poster
5.0

A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them.

Invisibles

2007

No artwork available
NR

David, who is part of a family struck by death and silently suffering from the loss of his grandmother, receives a visit from some friends from abroad who keep him busy. The memories that surround him and the family pressure unleash an emotional crisis in David that makes him travel an unknown path to the depths of the forest and his memory, where he realizes that the fight is with himself and that he must face his greatest pain: the duel of the death of his grandmother.

Beyond the Mist

4 3 2 uno poster
NR

Faced with the deafening silence of the sea, how do four approach a duel? What do they take for granted about death? What different states do three go through with respect to the same duel? What hidden feelings appear? Why do you think you feel things that you don't feel, but say you have to feel and make them your own? What unsuspected vibrations could arrive and completely change your idea of ​​death? By four, by three, by two... and one?

4 3 2 uno

2010

Entre los dioses del desprecio poster
9.0

An expert on disarming alarms leaves prison to do a job.

Entre los dioses del desprecio

2001

Boca Chica poster
NR

Twelve-year-old Desi is in pursuit of becoming a famous singer. As Desi braces to leave her hometown, she's met with deep-seated secrets that have long tormented her family and their coastal Dominican community.

Boca Chica

2024

Tiempos mejores poster
10.0

The story of the relationship between a showgirl and a former toreador.

Tiempos mejores

1994

A State of Madness poster
4.0

A film noir evocative Caribbean drama set in 1953 in the Dominican Republic during the cruel dictatorship of Leonidas Trujillo. After a group of mental patients escape from Nigua Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Antonio Zaglul is appointed new director of the establishment with the purpose of calming down the negative press the lack of control of the place was generating. It will be difficult to tell if madness lives inside or outside the hospital's walls.

A State of Madness

2020

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