Media made with a Latina twist ™
Transforming filmmaking Industry
Latina MadeMedia is a film and media production company established on the principle of making media for all audiences based on reflections of the Latin culture and experiences, produced and told by Latinos artists.
Formed with a Family based working environment in mind Yerania Del Orbe a Dominican-American actress, writer, producer and filmmaker founded Latina Made Media™ in 2019 out of Somerville, Massachusetts.
A writer, producer, mom and veteran
Yerania del Orbe Latina Made Media™
Enchanted by moving pictures before I could even write, as a child I made picture books and would act them out for my parents often casting - and then directing - my older sisters in the plays.
I fell in love with the transformative way cinema made me feel and I wanted everyone to feel the way I did.
Growing up in a low-income neighborhood in the Morrisania section of The South Bronx I learned that the chances of a young Dominican girl from a poor family making it as a filmmaker were slim-to-none. So, I did what anyone would do who wanted to escape the poverty I came from: I joined the Army.
After 10 years and a tour in Iraq I became disabled and was honorably discharged. I decided to return to New York City with the hope of becoming an actress.
I enrolled at the New School University and began taking several courses in Filmmaking. With a focus on story development, writing, and creating characters, I found myself drawn to the motivations of the characters - the things that made them live and breathe.
I am a member of Women in Film & Television New England and Women In Film. I live in Somerville, Massachusetts. With my family, husband Michael, and our children, Aniello and Valentina.
This is our story
Careea
Yerania Del Orbe is a Dominican american actor, writer, director and producer. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in The Bronx, NY.
She attended High school at St. Thomas Aquinas in the Bronx and served 10yrs in The US Army.
She began her higher education at Central Texas College, Temple Texas studying Business during her military service.
She was honorably discharged in 2008, and continued her studies.
She graduated from The New School, NYC with a Bachelors in Liberal Arts & Media Studies in 2013.
Currently she is a Masters in Film Candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts class of Fall 2020.
Our Projects
Series
We tell Latin stories with characters and real events (Descriptions)
- Santeras- Episodic TV Series- Mystical Drama
- Unrooted- Episodic TV Series- True to life, Dramedy— “Shameless” meets “Weeds” and “American Vandal”- In Somerville, Massachusetts, Someone plants Marijuana in the community garden. Who did it?
- Growing- Episodic TV Series- True to life, Dramedy— a blended “Weeds”-like tale. Follows a family, a Massachusetts Veteran and her Italian-Dominican Household as they venture into using and cultivating Marijuana.
ShortFilms
- La Santera- Short Film- Mystical Drama
- El Baile- Short Film- Drama- One man’s way of moving on from loss.
Feature Film
- Sgt Vasquez’s Playlist- Feature Film- Military Drama- A veteran returns home with PTSD and uses Art as a form of Therapy.
- Mother & Step- Feature Film- Dramatic Thriller- Explores the Triangular relationships, Blended families and Family bonds. A mother surprises her daughter at a Sorority retreat.
- Untitled- Female Serial Killer- Feature Film- Thriller- A victim of sexual assault takes matters into her own hands. She hunts for predators and seals their fates with accidental deaths.
- We are Bridges- Feature Film- Drama- A woman’s immigration tale. A Dominican woman struggles to maintain one foot in her adopted country and the other in her homeland.
- Clinical- Feature Film- Thriller- A clinic in Somerville Massachusetts has discovered a new treatment, They specialize in memories and with their new treatment they can cure any habit and alter any unwanted behaviors.
- Balloons- Live Action and Animation Feature Film- Follows the life of some inflatable Balloons.
- The Blue- Feature Film- Sci-fi- A comet passes bringing a change to Humanity, no more is race an issue, we are all Blue.
- The Take-Back- Feature Film- Comedy- When Amora gives her boyfriend a family heirloom she didn’t know he was a cheater or how important the gift really was. She enlists the help of her sisters and they have to take back what’s theirs.
- You Only need One- Feature Film- Documentary- Follows an amazing artist, who has only seen through one eye her whole life. A new comic book Artist, Adriana M. Edwards.