M.I.A. — What Happened to Mia Wander?
Switzerland, Planned for 3rd quarter 2025
FILM,
Fiction, Documentary, Experimental,
39 min.
- directed by
- Manuel Justo
- Written by
- Manuel Justo
- Status
- Post-production
In 2020, Mia Wander, a young Swiss biologist, was informally credited with the discovery of extraterrestrial life, claiming to have been transported to an unknown celestial body called Hus. The scientific community discarded Mia as a hoax, but an unconventional institution stepped up to represent her research. Silence on the subject prevailed until Emily Weaver, a progressive scientific journalist uncovers the story of a lifetime.
credits
- World Premiere
- Planned for 3rd quarter 2025
- Original Version
- English, Swiss-German, German, colour, DCP, 39 min.
- Production
- Manuel Justo
- Producer
- Manuel Justo
- directed by
- Manuel Justo
- Written by
- Manuel Justo
- Cinematography
- Manuel Justo
- Editing
- Manuel Justo
- Location Sound Mix
- Nuno Gonçalves, Becky Lewer, Annie-Rose Lewer, Joana Patrão, Kiko Mori, Klara Frick, Katharina Rüll
- Music
- Diogo Pinto, Gerome Gadient, Lucas Wirz, Maya Hottarek
- Special Effects
- Matilde Martins
- Casting
- Manuel Justo
Cast
Emily Whitaker as Emily Weaver
Hamza Badran as Version of Himself
Chus Martínez as Version of herself
Urs Erismann as Urs Wellen
Claudia Bandixen as Martha Wander
Ina Bandixen as Mia Wander
Manuel Justo as Version of himself
Alicia Michaels as Claudia Burnell
Cécile Baumgartner as Peter Crick
Berxo Strässle as Translator
Peter Burleigh as Jeanne Forrêt
Lucca Jaeckel as Lucca P. Hyde
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Manuel Justo