
Marietere Vélez
Writing
Biography
Actress and screenwriter born in Ponce and raised in Jayuya. She graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, in Arecibo, with a Bachelor's Degree in Tele-Radial Communication; and from Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, with a Master's Degree in Film and Television Screenwriting. She is a university professor of directing and writing.
Place of Birth: Ponce, Puerto Rico
Known For

La comuna
After years of growing as a team, this Puerto Rican group of circus performers, known as “La Comuna” (The Commune), have been forced to leave their creative headquarters. It has been one year since their last performance and now they must come together to pick up the pieces of their creative home. Staring Marietere Vélez (actress and screenwriter, “Receta no incluida”), Yussef Soto (actor, circus performer and founder of “Y no había luz…”), Delia Isabel Rivera, Miguel Sabalier and Catalina Morales

Almost There
Ilia has returned from her graduate studies in Europe to her hometown in the heart of the Puerto Rican mountains: Jayuya. She encounters absurd and bizarre situations with her friends, family, work and romantic life that would only happen in a small rural town.

Receta no incluída
Olivia suffers from OCD, a mental condition that manifests itself through a voice in her head that compels her to brush her teeth constantly. During Christmas Eve festivities in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, the voice comes back after being dormant for a year. Not having Health Care, she desperately searches for the pills that will control her OCD without a prescription. Through her friend Jessica, who she met years ago in a mental institution, she meets David, the town’s pharmacist’s son, who agrees to sell her the pills. Trapped inside David’s apartment by a rainstorm, two strangers start uncovering truths about each other and start a healing process that doesn’t necessarily involve pills.

Papo Amor
Jorge is on the lookout for his ideal woman, guided by the advice of his favorite outdated radio show: Papo Amor.

El paso
After being subjected to endless objectification on a day-to-day basis, Ceci turns the tables.

Collapse
When the power goes out and all exits mysteriously seal shut, shoppers and employees find themselves trapped inside a Puerto Rico shopping mall with no communication to the outside world. As uncertainty turns to desperation, what begins as confusion rapidly descends into chaos. With limited food supplies and no answers, strangers must choose between cooperation and survival at any cost. In the darkness, civilized society collapses in mere hours, revealing the fragile line between order and anarchy. A post-apocalyptic thriller that unfolds entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a mall, where the real horror isn't what's outside—it's what emerges from within.

Till' jail do us part
A couple of criminals challenge both love and the law to achieve the wedding of their dreams. Liza, determined to stay in her country despite financial hardships, convinces her boyfriend Joseph to go through with a heist that Las Vejigantes, the crime syndicate he works for, had explicitly abandoned. What starts as a simple art gallery theft, quickly escalates into an unexpected marriage proposal, a chaotic series of heists, police chases, and a media frenzy.

Ilia
Ilia has returned from her graduate studies in Europe to her hometown in the heart of the Puerto Rican mountains: Jayuya. She encounters absurd and bizarre situations with her friends, family, work and romantic life that would only happen in a small rural town.
Filmography
as Agente Sierra
as Natalia
as Ilia
as Ceci
as Matilde
as Ilia
as Guerrera