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ariana has appeared on the TV-show Chance where she worked with Hugh Laurie, Ginger Gonzaga, and Ethan Suplee. She traveled recently to several film festivals around the United States to promote the film Eleven Hundred to Lubbock, where she plays the role of Elena. The film won Best Movie and Best Director at the Broad Humor 2018, the Stubbornly Independent Award at the Tallgrass Film Festival 2018, and was accepted at the Dallas International Film Festival 2018, San Antonio Film Festival 2018, and Long Beach Indie International Film Festival 2018. She has done several short films, The Dishwasher where she plays Filipita, was selected for the official selection in the San Diego Film Festival 2018, Bend Film Festival 2018, Mammoth Film Festival 2019, where it won the “Grand Jury Award Short”, Festival Sayulita 2019, the Pasadena Film Festival 2019 and the Beverly Hills Film Festival 2019. Carmen where she brings to life the role of Carmen, a Mexican Hairstylist who is struggling to get money to support herself and her family. This short was also selected for the Long Beach Indie International Film Festival 2017. Mariana also stars on the series Living with Strangers where she plays one of the lead roles, Nancy, a halfFilipino half-Mexican from Portland, Oregon who is smart and witty, but comes across as the virtuous quiet one. I interview only people I really want to talk with, so I’m pleased to have the opportunity to talk with Mariana Flores about her life, what she’s most grateful for, how she copes successfully with rejection, and her ultimate dream for her life.
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Being grateful every single day of life; it’s a miracle for me. Many people do not seem likewise as grateful and choose to complain constantly about the most insignificant things.
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William Jackson: What is your definition of a miracle? Mariana Flores: Being grateful every single day of life; it’s a miracle for me. Many people do not seem likewise as grateful and choose to complain constantly about the most insignificant things. William: When did you realize you had talent that could move people? Mariana: When I was in school, at the Stella Adler Academy. I was able to discover many emotions in myself which allowed me to not only to get to know myself deeply, but also be able to share them with the audience. William: When did you know for sure you were an actor? Mariana: In middle school was the first time I said I wanted to be an actor. I realized I wanted to be one when I caught myself several times repeating the actor’s lines from pretty much all the movies I’d see.