Nava Mau Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Nava Mau
Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography Movies
Acting
all the words but the one
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.
Waking Hour
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.
Work
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.
Swing and Sway
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.
Sam's Town
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.
Femenina
A dedicated boxer is forced to confront his sexuality after he begins training with and falling for a transgender woman.
The Dregs
A friends’ trip to the Italian Alps gets derailed by old wounds and a cursed bottle of Grappa.
Rainbow Girls
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.
The Long Con
A little desert motel. A runaway bride. A grifter lover. A suitcase full of trouble.
Production
all the words but the one
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
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.
Waking Hour
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
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.
all the words but the one
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.
Work
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.
Sam's Town
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.
Waking Hour
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.
Rainbow Girls
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.
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