A little something about why I made this movie.

After unexpectedly losing my mother a few years ago at just 58, this film became a deeply personal way for me to navigate grief. Not through melodrama or sorrow alone, but through something warmer, stranger, and a little absurd.

I wanted this film to feel like what grief actually feels like, especially when the relationship with the person you’ve lost was strained and complex. There are days when the weight of loss is suffocating, and others when you find yourself smiling as you think about them, as if they were still in the room with you. At its core, Superreal is also a film about “seeing” our parents (or any loved one) clearly for the first time, and in doing so seeing a part of ourselves for the first time as well.

One of the things I love most about film is that the audience brings their own lived experience to everything they watch. I wanted to create a film that holds space for the ambiguity of grief and for the audience’s own meaning-making. Whether the protagonist truly spends the weekend with a 20-year-old version of his mother, or simply projects memory onto a stranger, each reading speaks to a different emotional truth. I believe all of them and more can coexist.

Ultimately, this is a story about connection: to our past, to the people who shaped us, and to the versions of ourselves we’re still trying to understand. I’m deeply grateful to the two incredible Actors and our small, mighty Crew who brought this film to life and made all my ideas infinitely better. I hope Superreal resonates with anyone who’s ever wrestled with loss and coming to grips with how surreal life can feel sometimes.

As a Puerto Rican director, I’m deeply committed to telling stories that center our people. Not in heightened extremes, but in the quiet, complicated realities of everyday life. I want to create space for the small, human moments that reflect our emotional lives, our contradictions, and our resilience.