Writer and director Mirella Muroni lives and works in Amsterdam. She trained as a screenwriter and director (fiction) at the Netherlands Film Academy. Since her training, she has consistently written stories with leading roles for women of color. In addition to making films, she writes children’s books, novels and poems with a magical realistic edge and searches for the beauty of inefficient storytelling. Her first feature film Forget All You Know (About Aliens) is currently in production.
For the Vrijplaats Creating the Experience Mirella was mentor of participant Herbert Alfonso.